Folks, I am going to flip the sense of the mouse camera zoom actions in versions 0.99 and beyond. Going forward, right-click-and-drag will zoom out with upward motion and zoom in with downward motion.
Why the switch? (1) It is more intuitive: pulling the mouse toward you move the molecule towards you; pushing the mouse away moves the molecule away. (2) It parallels the scroll-wheel behavior in PyMOL and other programs, where rolling the wheel towards you brings the molecule more near, and rolling the wheel away from you moves the molecule away. (3) It matches the expected behavior when dragging molecules relative to one another in the Z axis. (4) Coot, VIDA2, Chimera, Jmol, CCP4mg, and Dynamol already all follow this convention with their respective mouse zoom actions -- PyMOL was an outlier in this respect and for no good reason. Unfortunately this switch does take a bit of getting use too (especially for me!), but it will help everyone move between programs more easily. To restore the old behavior: set legacy_mouse_zoom Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com
