On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:53 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah yes - sorry Tom I misspoke - I was actually thinking specifically of the scenario where a residue is *not* selected. E.g. You are turning the model using the mouse, and you want to type a command altering display parameters - e.g. clipping and such.

 In this case, typing works fine in both chimera and chimeraX, but scrolling through the history using up or shift-up only works in chimera - in chimeraX you need to click on the command line such that a text cursor is visible.

Oli

On Jun 2, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:

In Chimera or ChimeraX if you select a residue in the graphics window, you can then directly type a command.  But if you press the up arrow or down arrow key it extends the selection to the whole helix or strand or turn, or demotes the selection — it does not allow you to traverse previous commands in the command-line.  I just tested on Mac and it works that way on both.

But maybe you mean you have clicked into some other ChimeraX panel, not the graphics window and then up / down arrows don’t traverse the command-line history or promote selection, although commands can be typed.    For instance clicking into the ChimeraX log I suspect up/down arrow actually do something in that html panel, but I’m not sure what.  In Chimera, clicking into the reply log blocks not only up/down arrow but all keys from going to the command line.  So I don’t understand your case.  But I believe the Qt window toolkit sometimes has default up/down arrow bindings on the panel you are clicked into that might not make sense.   Explain your exact case and send it to chimerax-bugs@cgl.ucsf.edu — probably better than the user mailing list.

Tom

On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:33 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

The ChimeraX command line, similar to Chimera, is active no matter where the mouse cursor is positioned. So I can have a residue selected, and start typing a command directly - so far so good.

However, in Chimera, once I start typing, I can then page through the command history, using the up arrow or shift-up to filter by substring.

In ChimeraX, this doesn’t work - the command line receives text input, but in order to then page through the history, I need to actively click on the command line entry bar to activate it - it  would be good if this behavior was altered to that of regular chimera.

Apologies for the vague description, hope that made sense!

Cheers
Oli


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