Sean, Keen eye, there. Some representations are not selectable, like surfaces, and apparently transparent spheres. One trick/workaround is to show sticks and then spheres with transparency. If you need to hide the sticks, just set stick_transparency to 1.0. Here's an example,
load $TUT/1hpv.pdb as sticks set stick_transparency, 1 show spheres set sphere_transparency, 0.5 # now select something Hope this helps, -- Jason On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Sean Law <magic...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not sure if this is a bug in PyMOL but I found that when you make a > selection, show it as spheres representation, and then turn on the > transparency (to anything but "off"), none of the now transparent spheres be > selected via a mouse-click in the viewing area. Thus, if I selected 5 > atoms, showed them in spheres representation, turned on sphere transparency, > then I would not be able to click on those spheres to select or deselect > them. However, turning off transparency renders those atoms clickable > again. > > Is this normal? > > Sean > > ________________________________ > Take your contacts everywhere. Try Messenger for mobile > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrodinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
