<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Eric,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compiling Chimera is challenging for us, and would be even more so for an outside developer such as yourself. Nonetheless, the procedures for doing so and the challenges involved are discussed on this web page: <a href="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/sourcecode.html" class="">Source Code for UCSF Chimera</a>.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I would recommend you investigate our new program ChimeraX. It was designed to be a lot more programmer friendly from the get go. It has much more documentation of APIs and how to build extensions than Chimera does -- particularly compiled extensions. It also has a git repository (<a href="https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX" class="">https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX</a>) that you could submit pull requests to if you wanted to directly add features to ChimeraX instead of creating a plugin.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">--Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eric Pettersen</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 1, 2021, at 4:10 AM, Eric Werner <<a href="mailto:evwerner@gmail.com" class="">evwerner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Hi again,</p><p class="">I do c++ programming using STL, Boost, OpenGL, physics, math and
more using Visual Studio (VS2015) on Windows. If I want to
contribute to Chimera development is an easy way to get a VS
solution that then lets me compile Chimera directly on my machine?
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</p><p class="">Thanks for your help,</p><p class="">Eric <br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/21 5:09 AM, Eric Pettersen
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Hi Eric,
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This
a Mac setting, not a Chimera setting per se. Open System
Preferences and go to the Accessibility category. In the
Display section (and under the "Display" tab), turn on "Reduce
transparency".</div>
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<div class=""><p class="">Hi Eric,</p><p class="">Thank you for the info. You have great
software. You are right I can see the menu with the
in-window version. However, because the menu
background it somewhat transparent it makes it more
difficult to read. Granted I am a bit visually
impaired. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Is there a way to make the menu background
nontransparent? <br class="">
</p><p class="">Thanks for your time and help. <br class="">
</p><p class="">Eric<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/21 6:25 PM, Eric
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Hi Eric,
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This
is a current limitation of the Tk windowing toolkit
that Chimera uses. Perhaps future versions of the
toolkit will fix this, but for now that's the way it
is. Your two options are:</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1) Don't
use dark mode when using Chimera. That might be a
pain.</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2) Use
the in-window version of the menus rather than the
ones at the top of the screen. The in-window
menus don't suffer from this problem.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There
is also sort of a third option: use our new program
ChimeraX. It doesn't suffer from this problem.</div>
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<div class="">Hi,<br class="">
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Chimera is great. However in the
latest download for the Mac, I can
no longer see the menus when in Dark
Mode on my Macbook Pro using Mojave.<br class="">
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In the attached file you can see the
the transparent background of the
menu drop down list makes it even
harder.<br class="">
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Is there a solution to adjust the
menu text and background color and
making the menu background opaque?<br class="">
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Thank you for your help.<br class="">
<br class="">
Eric<br class="">
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