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.

• 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, culling. stereo should be one of the values returned by stereomodes(). projection should be one of the PROJ constants defined in this module. size should be a list of two integers corresponding to the width and height of the display in pixels.