Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #2143

Timestamp:

Jun 14, 2023, 2:03:56 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

This was added as the "center" mouse mode. Ticket #9183

I added a new mouse mode called "center" that centers what is shown in the view (by moving the camera) and sets the center of rotation to the clicked atom, residue, bond, pseudobond, surface point, volume surface. The camera motion is animated over 10 frames. You can assign the mode to the right mouse button using command

mouse right center

You can put that command using the ChimeraX, Settings / Startup / Execute these commands at startup if you want this to be the default.

Note that ctrl-right click is not usable on the Mac in ChimeraX because of a limitation of the Qt window toolkit. Qt always reports ctrl-left click as ctrl-right click. So ChimeraX has no way to know when it gets a ctrl- right click whether it is really a ctrl-left click or a ctrl-right click. Since ctrl-left click is used for selection in ChimeraX, it always interprets ctrl-right as ctrl-left click.

The new "center" mode like the existing "pivot" mode which sets the center of rotation but does not center the view.