Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #19232, comment 4


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Oct 28, 2025, 8:59:04 PM (3 weeks ago)
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  • Ticket #19232, comment 4

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    22Hi Tom,
    33Thanks for the fix for original chimera, worked like a charm! Also, the 3D rotation now works for molecule #1 on the latest daily download of chimerX. As a comment, most of the people here still prefer the old chimera for a number reasons. For instance, the animation option in the chimera was very useful for presentations. The command line changes are different in chimeraX and I never understood why they would be changed in the chimeraX after most felt comfortable with the chimera command line. It would also be nice to have all the structures in a list view in ChimeraX with more of the title showing (like chimera) with the ability to delete ones that I no longer need (I have not been able to delete single files of previously view structures, only all of them can be deleted from what I could figure out). Having their images displayed without seeing most the full name unless I move the cursor over it is quite slow (again, there may be a way to put them in a list view but I have yet to figure it out). We do like Chimera and hope that ChimeraX will regain some the features that were in the original Chimera (I realize there are many new features in chimeraX but many of the old features us old protein chemists used are missing or more difficult to use). I don’t want this sound like a complaint session, just a few comments of a long time user and lover of chimera.
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    32 On Oct 27, 2025, at 2:08 PM, ChimeraX <ChimeraX-bugs-admin@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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    36 #19232: Rotation in 3 dimensions of molecule #1 fails
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    38           Reporter:  Rodney-Tweten@…   |      Owner:  Tom Goddard
    39               Type:  defect            |     Status:  assigned
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    47 Comment (by Tom Goddard):
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    49  Hi Rodney,
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    51    ChimeraX (and Chimera too) mouse rotation does a rotation perpendicular
    52  to the screen if you click near the edge of the window.  If you click near
    53  the middle it does rotations about axes in the plane of the screen.  In
    54  your video model #1 is rotating perpendicular to the screen because you
    55  clicked near the right edge of a wide graphics window.  Click more near
    56  the middle and it will work.
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    58    I see when I test that ChimeraX has a weird notion of what is near the
    59  edge of the screen.  It seems like with a wide graphics window (3x wider
    60  than it is tall) 1/3 of the screen on the left and right cause z mouse
    61  rotation (perpendicular to the screen).  You are supposed to have to click
    62  nearer the edge, say within 10%.  I'll see if I can fix that.
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    64    Tom
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