Re: [PyMOL] One-Button Mice on Macs

[Andreas Forster]

Warren, what's up with this?  Pymol and one-button mouse??  What's next? 
 Pymol on abacus?


Wouldn't it rather be time to remind Apple to provide ergonomic equipment?


Andreas

ps.  I would be interested in hearing if anyone has found an ingenious 
use for the dozens of shiny slick white shrink-wrapped one-button mice 
that accumulate in departments that use Mac.



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[PyMOL] One-Button Mice on Macs

[Warren DeLano]

Mac Users:

We strongly recommend (require?) use of a three-button mouse with
MacPyMOL and PyMOLX11Hybrid.  However, it is possible to use MacPyMOL in
a limited way on Macs that have a single button mouse thanks to some
built-in mouse remapping in the Mac OS X GLUT implementation.  Her is
how that works...

If the Mac is hooked up to a 1-button mouse (only) when MacPyMOL or
HybridX11PyMOL are launched, then Mac OS X itself will furnish
translations as follows:

Rotate:   Click & Drag

XY-Translate: Option-Click & Dreg

Zoom: Control-Click & Drag

Select:   Click & Release
Box-Select:   Shift-Click & Drag
Box-Deselect: Shift-Option-Click & Drag

Clipping:Control-Shift-Click & Drag with...
   - near plane controlled by vertical motion
   - far plane controlled by horizontal motion

Note that not all mouse actions are possible with a one-button mouse.
For example, I don't think molecular editing is possible with a
one-button mouse.

Cheers,
Warren
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