<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;" class="">Many thanks Elaine - I did do as you suggested initially, but I was typing drawmode, rather than drawMode, and Chimera attributes are case sensitive. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be helpful I think if Chimera threw an error or exception of some kind when a user tries to use setattr with a nonexistent attribute - as it is it seems to fail silently, and it is hard to figure out sometimes whether this is because the attribute does not exist, or the wrong scope was used , e.g. p vs a etc.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Oliver.<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 6, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">setattr p drawMode 1 sel</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>