also, there's a bug in Jmol (now fixed, for next release) that "model=n"
does not work. You have to say model=1.1 or */1 but not just model=1 . I
checked back, and this bug dates to Jmol 11.6.RC17 -- LONG ago!

Bob

2009/7/1 Angel Herráez <angel.herr...@uah.es>

> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Dan Connolly <conno...@w3.org>
> > wrote:
>
> >     I'm struggling to understand how "define" works.
>
> Hello Dan
>
> "define" is rather simple, and dates back to Rasmol and Chime
> scripting.
> It's called a user-defined atom set. You give it a name and any atom
> expression, and then you can use the name to specify that atom set.
>
> For example:
>  define proteinNitrogens protein and nitrogen
>  define myBindingSite protein and *:A and within(3.0,ligand)
>
> The name for the set may be anything as long as it is not a
> JmolScript reserved word (that's why FGiJ is using the tilde for a
> start), and it's case-insesitive as far as I reckon.
>
> As for why the exact script you have is not working, it's likely a
> bug as Bob says. Try another version of Jmol to check.
>
>
> >     select :c; define ~contarget (selected and model=1); select none;
> >     select ~contarget; spacefill
>
> "select none" is trivial there: any selection overrides the previous
> one.
> Also, you can do that in several different variants:
>
> define ~contarget (*:c and */1); select ~contarget; spacefill
> define ~contarget (*:c and 1.0); select ~contarget; spacefill
>
> Hope it helps
>
>
>
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