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Mouse Menu

The Mouse menu indicates and controls the behavior of the mouse when the mouse moves and clicks within the graphics window. Mouse clicks and drags can affect VMD in one of two ways. It can change the view of the scene, either by rotating, translating, or scaling. It can also pick objects in the scene, causing some further action to be taken. These behaviors are all reflected in the state of the Mouse menu.

Below, we describe the main parts of the Mouse menu.


Mouse modes

The top three menu items select whether the mouse will rotate, translate, or scale the scene when the user clicks and drags with the left mouse button.


Pick modes

These modes, located right below the mouse modes in the Mouse menu, control how the mouse affects objects in the scene (as opposed to how the mouse changes the view of these objects). Note that any time you choose a new pick mode, the current mouse mode changes to "Rotate".


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