Miguel Howard sent [8.50p gmt 2004 March 11 Thursday] :

> Tim wrote:
> 
> > my opinion is that color monitors should apply to the selected set,
> > like most other commands.  that way, if you want to color a
> > monitor, select one of the involved atoms and issue a "color
> > monitor [color]" command.
> 
> This makes sense to me.
> 
> I would also propose that the default monitor color *not* be
> <inherit>
> 
> And, I would apply the same reasoning to 'label'. One should be able
> to set label colors on individual labels.
> 
> > that makes most sense to me, but I am not sure the impact it would
> > have on existing Chime/Rasmol scripts.
> 
> I need you (the group) to think about how important it is to offer a
> 'backward compatibility' option. It would be annoying to implement,
> but could be done.
> 

for me, backwards compatibility of monitor or label colors is a
non-starter - I consider Chime's implementation a bug or a poor design.

my two cents. :-)

:tim

-- 
timothy driscoll
molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization
<http://www.molvisions.com/>
usa:north carolina:wake forest


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