<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 Sarah,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Currently there is no setting to adjust the zone mouse mode label colors and text. You could edit the ChimeraX Python code to change the label colors, that is in </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ChimeraX.app/Contents/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/zone/zone.py</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You would change lines</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""> self._label_color = BuiltinColors['yellow']</div><div class=""> self._label_background = BuiltinColors['black']</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div>to the colors you want ('black' and 'white'). There is also no setting for the label text to show chain ID, one letter residue code, and residue number, it only shows 3-letter residue code and residue number. Even the ChimeraX label command has no setting to adjust this yet. Our older program Chimera has a labelopt command that allowed setting the text in the label</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/labelopt.html" class="">https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/labelopt.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>and we should add something similar in ChimeraX. I've made an enhancement request to allow setting the default colors and text.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/3813" class="">https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/3813</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>You are right that the preference setting Labels / Balloon-help Specifier Style will not effect what the Zone mouse mode labels show.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 8, 2020, at 9:00 PM, Sarah Piper <<a href="mailto:sarahjpiper89@gmail.com" class="">sarahjpiper89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">HI ChimeraX team,<br class="">I really like the feature in ChimeraX that creates a map clipping zone in the right mouse tools - zone with automatic labelling. However, the default labels are black background and yellow text, and only the residue 3 letter code and number. Is it possible to change these labels to a white bg and customise the labels to include e.g. the one letter code and chain ID? I tried to do this with the selection - labels tool but it did not seem to change it for the zone labels.<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks and keep up the great work :)<br class=""><br class="">Sarah<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ChimeraX-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br class="">Manage subscription:<br class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>