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The Popup Menu

   

Pressing the right mouse button while the mouse cursor is in the graphics display window activates the VMD popup menu. This menu contains a number of commands, and also submenus with commands, which may be executed by selecting the option while keeping the third mouse button pressed and then releasing the button. The commands accessed via the popup menu simply execute a text command which is bound to the selected popup option, just as if that command had been entered at the VMD command prompt. There are options available in VMD to add your own submenus and commands to the main VMD popup menu, to customize this GUI control to your personal taste. See section §  for a complete description of how to do this, and how to make these popup menu customizations available every time you start up VMD.

In addition to this general popup menu, there is also an atom/molecule specific popup menu which is available when one holds down both the shift key and the rightmost mouse button over any atom in a molecule. This submenu contains options to change how the molecule is rendered, to display information about the molecule, and to perform actions such as fix the molecule in place or hide it from view. The following section describe the menu options for both the general and atom-specific popup menus.

The following sections describe the submenus and options available in the general VMD popup menu.





Justin Gullingsrud
Tue Apr 6 09:22:39 CDT 1999