<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Oliver Clarke <<a href="mailto:olibclarke@gmail.com">olibclarke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Greetings,<br><br>Is there any way to change the default color for pseudo bonds (e.g. distance monitors)?<br><br>I generally work on a white background, and the default of yellow is very difficult to see. Pretty much everything else in the Chimera GUI seems to be customizable, which I love, but I can’t see how to alter the default in this particular instance.</blockquote><br></div><div>Yes, as Elaine said there probably should be an option for this. I will put a feature-request ticket in the Chimera Trac database for this. In the interim, in addition to Elaine's suggestions you could modify your Chimera to do this by editing <your Chimera>/share/StructMeasure/DistMonitor.py, line 61, and change:</div><div><br></div><div>distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor')</div><div><br></div><div>to:</div><div><br></div><div>distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor', color="purple")</div><div><br></div><div>to make distance monitors default to purple, Obviously you could use any other color name you wanted instead of purple.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that on a Mac "<your Chimera>" is Chimera.app/Contents/Resources.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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