Contact Map Tool

[Seth Cooper]

I think 'select all empty' would select the green squares which don't have contacts showing? Would it be useful to select all the white squares?

[karstenw]

I don't see a need to select all the white squares. The green squares without contacts, or all green should be fine.

[Bruno Kestemont]

Summary (and my preferences):

1-select all green
2-Karen's slider related to heat
3-select all green without contact ('"all empty" or "all red"?)
4-surface selection of several points together on screen (square or circle)
5-jeff's two grey cross-hair lines stay in place if we want (e.g. when shift clicking)
6-band strength choice: default or "relative to heat"
OR better:
7-a slider for band strength of new selected (so that we can combine selections, band them, new selection, band them with other strength …)
OR even better:

8-Modes: "select" mode and "band" mode. On band mode, we can select what we want, and selectively band selected contacts with common band attributes This tool could even be used (with n°4) to quickly select a lot of existing bands and change their attributes. The "contact map" would then be a permanent tool for all puzzles (with heat only when available). It could even be interesting to be able to add our own "heat" on non contact puzzles, in order to design our own wanted structure using the contact map tool.

9- and a special symbol for banded pairs (a way to identify and then select all existing bands ! then use tool n°8). For example a circle in the square.

[Bruno Kestemont]

Thanks !

The new contact map tool is quite good. If I'm right, the following points are now possible with the new tool: 1-3-5-8

The other suggestions are "nice to have". May be wait a little bit to evaluate the current update before to consider these ones:

2-Karen's slider related to heat
4-surface selection of several points together on screen (square or circle)