[chimerax-users] measure blob - persistent color?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Alexis, 
That sounds the same as the workflow I tested.  However, I was using the latest daily build on Mac (dataset eds:1a0m although that may not matter):  

UCSF ChimeraX version: 0.91 (2019-06-25)

I wasn’t aware of any changes in the 5 days between our versions, though.
Elaine

> On Jun 25, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Rohou <a.rohou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Elaine,
> 
> I am toggling using the eye icon in the volume viewer.
> 
> This is with v 0.91 (2019-06-20).
> 
> Steps:
> - start chimera
> - open .mrc volume
> - adjust volume step size to 1, isosurface level, rotation
> - ui mousemode rightMode "pick blobs"
> - measure blob by right-clicking on a blob; blob is now colored (dark
> blue) and boxed (light green)
> - toggle eye icon. Volume is hidden
> - toggle eye icon. Volume surface is shown, blob is boxed but not
> colored anymore (it has the same grey color as the rest of the volume.
> 
> I can try and reproduce with the latest daily later today maybe.
> Cheers,
> Alexis
> 
> 
> On 6/25/19 10:23 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:
>> Hi Alexis,
>> I’m not sure how you are hiding and showing the volume object.  All the methods I tried for hiding/showing already do preserve the blob color from measure blobs:
>> 
>> - toggle using eye icon in Volume Viewer
>> - toggle using checkbox under eye icon in Model Panel
>> - command “hide” (hide #1; show #1)
>> - command “volume” with “hide” option (vol #1 hide; vol #1 show)
>> 
>> Elaine
>> -----
>> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
>> UCSF Chimera(X) team
>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
>> University of California, San Francisco
>> 
>>> On Jun 25, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Alexis Rohou <a.rohou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> I absolutely love the new measure blob UI in the daily builds. Very
>>> useful. Thank you so much for putting it together.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to get the blob surface color to persist beyond
>>> hiding/showing the volume object? Obviously, in a script I could just
>>> re-measure the blob and re-color it, but is there another way to make
>>> the color "stick"? (Note, I don't plan to change the isocontour level)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alexis
>