<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; "></pre><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; ">On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:
><i> 1) ability to create folders in the model panel so models can be
</i>><i> grouped
</i>><i> 2) ability to have a model in multiple folders
</i>><i> 3) ability to show/hide in a folder by a a single checkbox
</i>><i> 4) ability to name the folder
</i>
These are good suggestions, and we have discussed adding some kind of
grouping mechanism in Chimera given that there are a lot of situations
where you want to treat a set of models as a single entity (e.g.
multiple structures fit into a EM map).
I think #2 and #3 are in conflict though. Really, I don't think you
want #2 -- it's too confusing. Say a model is in two groups: you
close one group -- what happens? You hide one group -- what happens?
You deactivate one group and move the other -- what happens? Perhaps
if you elaborated on the motivation for putting a model in multiple
groups then some other alternative could be devised that provides what
you need.
I'll open a change-request in our Trac database for "grouping
mechanism" and include the above. I don't really want to promise a
timeline, but the issue is a concern of ours.</pre></blockquote><div>Seems like I never opened that ticket, at least I can't find it searching the database. A year later I did open a very similar ticket (#8253) which has now been implemented. So the Model Panel now supports grouping (and ungrouping) models in the current daily build, which at least minimally satisfies points 1, 3, and 4 above. The groups can be named as you wish, and changing active/shown/color/etc. for a group changes the corresponding attribute of all the models in the group.</div><div><br></div><div>Right now if multiple models are opened from a single data source they are automatically grouped. This comes into play most often when opening NMR ensembles. If anyone has any strong opinion as to whether this is a good default behavior or not, please speak up!</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div></span><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>