demo made under Linux has bland atoms in Windows

...in a fashion, that is. A demo I plan on using at school (a Windows fortress, it is) displays all atoms as grey--no color (by element). The demo was created on a Linux machine (at my home). :( Any thoughts? Kenward ps. both versions of Chimera are the latest production version (2304). -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca

Hi Kenward, That is certainly unexpected. To try to figure this out, a few questions: on those Windows machines, - does manually entering the command "color byelement" work on the structure(s) in the demo, or on any structures for that matter? - do other coloring operations work, within or separate from the demo? I don't think we know of any Chimera bug (yet) that would make everything gray. I had a problem once on some oldish Windows computers where everything except "wire" representation was really dark - it was a problem with the graphics hardware and/or driver. I could take a look if you want to mail it to me. I'm not on Windows, however. We could try it on Windows next week. Sorry about the travails, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...in a fashion, that is.
A demo I plan on using at school (a Windows fortress, it is) displays all atoms as grey--no color (by element). The demo was created on a Linux machine (at my home).
:(
Any thoughts?
Kenward ps. both versions of Chimera are the latest production version (2304). -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:55 -0800, Elaine Meng wrote:
Hi Kenward, That is certainly unexpected. To try to figure this out, a few questions:
on those Windows machines, - does manually entering the command "color byelement" work on the structure(s) in the demo, or on any structures for that matter? - do other coloring operations work, within or separate from the demo?
AFAIK things behave normally on the machines (I'm not there right now, so can't test this, but I've had no trouble in the past). Using "color byelement" (at the command line) in the middle of the demo straightened things out at least for the frame being looked at. I'm _not_ sure but seem to recall that things got messed up again at a later point. I figure I can deal with it by simply adding the command at places where it is needed, but I'm really curious why it arises at all. The demo is the "latest" version of the one I sent to you earlier. I'll send it under separate cover to you so as to not clutter up the list. It depends on 2ace.pdb and ach.pdb being in the same directory as the demo script. Kenward
I don't think we know of any Chimera bug (yet) that would make everything gray. I had a problem once on some oldish Windows computers where everything except "wire" representation was really dark - it was a problem with the graphics hardware and/or driver.
I could take a look if you want to mail it to me. I'm not on Windows, however. We could try it on Windows next week. Sorry about the travails, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html
On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...in a fashion, that is.
A demo I plan on using at school (a Windows fortress, it is) displays all atoms as grey--no color (by element). The demo was created on a Linux machine (at my home).
:(
Any thoughts?
Kenward ps. both versions of Chimera are the latest production version (2304).
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