New Foldit Interface

[jawz101]

there is no goddamn way to cut a protein. I click on a segment and go to cut and the whole protein moves around the screen. This is stupid. Sections are randomly freezing or getting bigger. What is happening?!

[rmoretti]

The new UI uses the same selection-based approach that was used in the old "Selection Mode" interface. By default there are no residues selected. A certain set of the tools can work with "no selection", often working identically as if everything was selected. A number of other tools work on specific residues, which requires you to select those residues first (with a left click - that's the purple highlighting). – For the actions which were in the right-click pie menu on the Original Interface, the workflow is now to select the residue(s) you want to act on (the residue you were going to right click on), then click the corresponding action in the action bar at the bottom.

Each of the actions on the bottom should have a tooltip which shows up on hovering the mouse cursor over it. It should tell you what each icon does. For disabled actions, it should also indicate what's needed to activate it. (Usually this involves selecting particular residues.)

[rmoretti]

For puzzles where it's enabled, cutting the protein should be available as one of the scissors icon.

By default this will be disabled. To enable it, you need to (left click) select either one segment or two adjacent segments/residues. If you select two adjacent segments, the cut action will put a cut between the two. If you select just one, selecting the cut action will pop up two green arrows, which allows you to select whether you add the cut before or after the residue you've selected.

I'm not sure why you're getting freezing/size changes when you do that. My only thought is that there might be some control issues going on. To cut the protein there should be no need to use the right mouse button, and the actions will be single clicks, not click and drag. (Does your mouse have a sticky right button? If so, Foldit might be reading a right click when it shouldn't be.)

[MajesticSammie]

1. The tweak functionality can be found by double clicking a secondary structural element. (I've added that to the changes guide - thanks.)

I've been double-click spamming the piece I'm supposed to according to the tutorial, but the tweak arrows don't appear. I'm very stuck.