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Pick Modes

Mouse picking can be used to turn on or off various types of labels, to query for information about an object, or to move items around on the screen. You can label an atom (and display the atom name), or you can label geometric values such as the distance between two atoms (a bond label), an angle between three atoms (an angle label), or the dihedral angle formed by four atoms (a dihedral label). This is done by setting the mouse into the proper picking mode and then selecting the relevant atoms with the mouse. Picking modes are selected from the Mouse menu.

The available pick mode actions are:


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