display

Python operations available from the display module, used to control the VMD camera as well as screen updates.

• update(): Force a display update, without checking the VMD FLTK menus

• update_ui(): Update the display as well as any other user interfaces.

• update_on(): Tell VMD to regularly update the display and the FLTK menus

• update_off(): Tell VMD not to regularly update the display. The display will be updated only when display.update() is called.

• stereomodes(): Returns a list of the available stereo modes.

• PROJ_PERSP, PROJ_ORTHO: String constants defined in the display module for setting the projection keyword in the set method.

• DETAIL_NONE, DETAIL_POINTS, DETAIL_WIRE, DETAIL_FLAT, DETAIL_FULL: String constants defined in the display module for setting the detail and altdetail methods in the set method.

• set(**keywordlist):
• get(key): set() and get() control various display properties. The following keywords accept/return floating-point values: eyesep, focallength, height, distance, nearclip, farclip. The following keywords accept boolean values for on or off, respectively: antialias, depthcue, depthsort, culling. detail and altdetail should be one of the DETAIL constants defined in this module. stereo should be one of the values returned by stereomodes(). projection should be one of the PROJ constants defined in this module.