Hi Xuehong, I am guessing you are showing both ribbons and atoms/bonds (the sidechains) and want to change the color of both the ribbon and the atoms/bonds of the selected residue(s). Besides the Actions... Target setting, there is also a coloring target setting in Actions... Color. Make sure that you have it set to Actions... Color... all of the above. Then, to color both the atoms/bonds and ribbon of a residue of interest, there are some alternatives: - select the whole residue, keep the default Target (Actions... Target... selected atoms/bonds), use Actions... Color... [pick a color] -OR- - select one atom or bond in the residue, set the Target to "selected residues" and use Actions... Color as above If you only want to change the ribbon color, not the atoms/bonds colors, change the coloring target to Actions... Color... ribbons before coloring. I recommend changing it back to "all of the above" right after that. I personally never change the Target from the default of "selected atoms/bonds" (because changing it can be confusing) and instead change my selection to include everything I want to act on before applying an Action. If you only have one atom or bond in the residue selected, one way to promote the selection to the whole residue is to press the up arrow key (may need to click in the graphics window first). I hope this helps, Elaine On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Xuehong Liu wrote:
Hi, I chose the target as "selected residues", then selected the residue I want to put certain color on, but only a bond color was changed when I did that. However, if I did not select a residue, then the color option will change the color for the whole helix selected.
thank Xuehong
Xuehong Liu, Ph.D Research Assistant Professor Department of Physiology/Pharmacology Oregon Health & Science University 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. L334 Portland, OR 97239 phone: (503) 494-3230 fax: (503) 494-4352 _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
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