Hi Andreas, It was a bug with the invalidation system. I just pushed a fix to source forge.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Cheers, -- Jason 2011/9/29 Andreas Förster <docandr...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > Has anyone noticed that the distance command behaves oddly. Has this > been recently introduced? > > fetch 1ubq > zoom 1ubq > dist 9/cg2, 73/cd2 > # output: object dist01 is created > # distance of 10.2 is shown, but no dashed line > # now check this out: > # several repetitions of the next two lines > disable dist01 > enable dist01 > # eventually lead to the appearance of the dashed line > # but it gets better > disable dist01 > enable dist01 > # The distance is enabled but neither number nor dashed line are visible > disable dist01 > enable dist01 > # Now the number and the dashed line are back > > When dist01 is enabled but invisible, disabling 1ubq brings it back, but > it disappears again when 1ubq is re-enabled. > > With other pdb files, the distance command doesn't work at all. It > returns a distance of 0.0A to the screen that is only visible when the > associated pdb object is disabled. > > I've observed this with > pymol-py26 1.4-7 installed with fink on a MacBook running 10.6 > and with > pymol 1.4.1 revision 3968 installed through svn on RHEL 6.1 > > Notably, earlier revisions (e.g. 3958 and 3945) on RHEL 6.1 work just fine. > > Recently introduced bug? > > > Andreas > > > > -- > Andreas Förster, Research Associate > Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs > Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London > http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrodinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net