Perfect, thank you both for the quick responses. Adjusting the default in the source worked perfectly. Cheers, Oliver. On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Is there any way to change the default color for pseudo bonds (e.g. distance monitors)?
I generally work on a white background, and the default of yellow is very difficult to see. Pretty much everything else in the Chimera GUI seems to be customizable, which I love, but I can’t see how to alter the default in this particular instance.
Yes, as Elaine said there probably should be an option for this. I will put a feature-request ticket in the Chimera Trac database for this. In the interim, in addition to Elaine's suggestions you could modify your Chimera to do this by editing <your Chimera>/share/StructMeasure/DistMonitor.py, line 61, and change:
distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor')
to:
distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor', color="purple")
to make distance monitors default to purple, Obviously you could use any other color name you wanted instead of purple.
Note that on a Mac "<your Chimera>" is Chimera.app/Contents/Resources.
--Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu