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    <p>Hi again,</p>
    <p>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>Thanks for your help,</p>
    <p>Eric <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/21 5:09 AM, Eric Pettersen
      wrote:<br>
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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="">--Eric<br class="">
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            <div class="">On May 26, 2021, at 4:15 AM, Eric Werner <<a
                href="mailto:evwerner@gmail.com" class=""
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                <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="">
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                <p class="">Is there a way to make the menu background
                  nontransparent? <br class="">
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                <p class="">Thanks for your time and help. <br class="">
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                <p class="">Eric<br class="">
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                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/21 6:25 PM, Eric
                  Pettersen wrote:<br class="">
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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="">--Eric</div>
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                    <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>
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                        <div class="">On May 25, 2021, at 8:51 AM,
                          Elaine Meng <<a
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                                <div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div>
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                                    class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span
                                    style="font-family:
                                    -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                                    Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Eric
                                    Werner <<a
                                      href="mailto:evwerner@gmail.com"
                                      class="" moz-do-not-send="true">evwerner@gmail.com</a>><br
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                                    class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span
                                    style="font-family:
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                                      class="">Cannot see menus on
                                      MacBook Mojave</b><br class="">
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                                    class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span
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                                    24, 2021 at 9:10:48 PM PDT</span></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
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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
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                                    Thank you for your help.<br class="">
                                    <br class="">
                                    Eric<br class="">
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