Update atom spec balloon immediately if modifier key held down

[Tom Goddard]

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From: Oliver Clarke <>
Subject: [Chimera-users] Thoughts re enhancements for ChimeraX
Date: February 10, 2016 at 4:37:31 AM PST
To: "chimera-users@… Mailing List" <chimera-users@…>

Hi, just thinking about a couple of possible enhancements relating to things that are probably difficult to fix in the current framework, feel free to take or leave them.

• Hover to label residue is useful, but slow. Maybe hold down alt/option and have the residue currently under the cursor instantly bring up a residue label (or put the residue label in the lower status bar, and have it change when the cursor moves over another residue)?

• Selecting molecules inside (e.g. mesh) density maps is a little cumbersome in that it requires un-showing the mesh map first, even though model is clearly visible - ctrl-clicking on an atom usually selects the map instead (which is only rarely the desired outcome). perhaps a modifier key to specifically allow selecting atoms, ignoring maps, would be useful in this instance?

Cheers,

Oli.