Edit label after placement with right mouse

[rjr27@…]

It would be handy to be able to edit the text and size of a label after placing it with the Right Mouse command. The PDB file I was starting from used a non-standard numbering scheme for the residues.

[pett]

Reported by Randy Read

[Elaine Meng]

If you mean somehow in a graphical interface, this is a request for enhancement (and we are already planning to have a GUI interface for 2D labels eventually).  You can already edit these things with the “2dlabel” command.
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/2dlabels.html>

[Tom Goddard]

That would be useful. Currently ChimeraX is missing lots of user interface panels that we have in our older Chimera, such as editing label text. Currently in ChimeraX if I use the mouse to label a residue it puts the equivalent command in the log panel, for example:

label #1/A:16

This is showing the label "CYS 16" in the graphics and if I wanted it to show a different number I could use the label command

label #1/A:16 text "CYS 55"

While this is reasonable for making a figure, if you were doing analysis with the structure and examining many residues it would make sense to instead make a PDB file with the desired numbering. I don't think ChimeraX helps write a renumbered file, so other software would need to do that.

[Tom Goddard]

In the future we can have the "Move label" mouse mode be move and edit, so you click on the label then type in new text, or change text size, or change text color -- these controls will be in a panel that appears when using the mouse mode. I don't expect we will get to this for at least 6 months but we are discussing ChimeraX 1.0 release goals tomorrow and maybe it will get higher priority.