[Chimera-users] Edit and UnDo?

[Rudy J. Richardson]

Eric,

Thanks for the further explanations, and thanks again for all the work of 
you and the team to make Chimera such a great product.

Rudy

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Eric Pettersen wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Rudy J. Richardson wrote:
>
>       Elaine,
>
>       Thanks. What I meant by "Edit" was a restructuring of the
>       options on the toolbar akin to the standard structure found in
>       many programs, e.g., File, Edit, View, ....
>
>       I realize such a radical restructuring is probably not feasible,
>       and the more I use Chimera, the more accustomed I get to its
>       menu structure.
> 
> 
> Since the main interaction paradigm in Chimera is to select parts of a
> structure and perform actions on the selection, we chose to have the menu
> structure emphasize that paradigm rather than obscure it.  Where it made
> sense to us, we did try to retain more broadly-used menu ideas (e.g. the
> File and Help menus).
>
>       It is unfortunate, however, that a global "undo" function could
>       not be implemented. For reference, this has recently been
>       implemented in another molecular modeling program, YASARA; it is
>       not able to undo everything, but for what it is able to undo,
>       this feature is quite helpful.
> 
> 
> Yes, we certainly agree that it would be desirable, but it is really hard to
> retrofit into the current design.  We will try to support undo better in
> Chimera 2.
> 
> --Eric
> 
>                         Eric Pettersen
> 
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
> 
>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
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