Hi Mungo, Unfortunately there isn’t any option to put a contrasting rectangle behind the 3D labels, and no commands for their font size and style (bold and/or italic). The latter are set using menu: Favorites… Preferences, category: Labels. You can change the color of the labels with commands, e.g. color green,rl … to make all residue labels green. By contrast, for 2D labels, there is command-line control font size and style and color, as well as a contrasting-rectangle option, but then no connection with the 3D structure, so you wouldn’t have the location of the residue nor its name and number. X,Y location and text are user-specified. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/2dlabels.html> Given these limitations you may prefer to go back to display/undisplay or some other means of highlighting the residue such as selection. Selection would disrupt users’ pre-existing selections (if any) and could also slow response time. Elaine
On May 30, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Elaine,
"sleep .2" works for me (I still don't get any "wait" to happen over Rest) - but I've realised there is a much better way to do what I want which is the "rlabel" / "~rlabel" command to show a residue label as I traverse the sequence / structure.
One question on that - interactively (in Chimera), the label shows in a nice shadowed box (a tooltip I guess), programmatically it is just the label text, which doesn't stand out too clearly against the background. Is that the best I can get for this? I don't see anything in labelopt to customize this.
Thanks,
Mungo