[Chimera-users] Cannot see menus on MacBook Mojave

[Eric Werner]

Hi again,

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?

Thanks for your help,

Eric

On 5/27/21 5:09 AM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 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".
>
> --Eric
>
>> On May 26, 2021, at 4:15 AM, Eric Werner <evwerner at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:evwerner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is there a way to make the menu background nontransparent?
>>
>> Thanks for your time and help.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On 5/25/21 6:25 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> 1) Don't use dark mode when using Chimera. That might be a pain.
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> There is also sort of a third option: use our new program ChimeraX. 
>>>  It doesn't suffer from this problem.
>>>
>>> --Eric
>>>
>>> Eric Pettersen
>>> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 25, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu 
>>>> <mailto:meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>
>>>>> *From: *Eric Werner <evwerner at gmail.com <mailto:evwerner at gmail.com>>
>>>>> *Subject: **Cannot see menus on MacBook Mojave*
>>>>> *Date: *May 24, 2021 at 9:10:48 PM PDT
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the attached file you can see the the transparent background of 
>>>>> the menu drop down list makes it even harder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a solution to adjust the menu text and background color 
>>>>> and making the menu background opaque?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric
>>>>>
>>>>> <ChimeraMenus.png>
>>>>
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