Help improve the Selection Interface

Started by RicGray

Timo van der Laan Lv 1

A little late but my 2 cents:
I always work in the selection interface. I couldnt work in the orginal because I kept loosing track of the different modes. Selection is what you see (select) is what you get.
Improvements, lots of them have been said, but these I think are the most important:

  1. Make all boxes movable, maybe with the exception of the competion and chat boxes.
  2. Remember the state and place of the boxes so a new start gets those
  3. Make the vertical icons the same size as the tool icons and put them in a seperate row above the tool icons. Include there the Contact map and ED tool buttons.
  4. Give the tool buttons their own icons (back), now shake, mutate to best, mutate choose one have the same icon.
  5. Reverse the move tool change, selecting one segment should always give you the move tool.
  6. Make the move tool always be in front of the protein, never to be obscured by it.

MurloW Lv 1

Agree with whole post.

Point 5:
I do not like this recent change with the move tool,
maybe selecting segment shouldn't necessarily bring up the move tool instantly, but 3 is a terrible hotkey.
I've already had loads of instances where I found myself in Original Interface somehow while just wanting to use the move tool, having to open/close/resize windows again. I don't even know how to do that without going through main menu!
It seems a tiny change, but it's a massive pain and point of aggravation.

Get rid of it.

marie_s Lv 1

Don't remove the new move tool, it was so painful to want to have this move tool when you select a segment.

marie_s Lv 1

Not in the last release, andrewxc
Selection Interface

  • The move tool no longer pops up automatically while selecting a single residue. This should make it easier to double click residues. There is now a button + hotkey (3) to bring up the move tool in the Selection Interface.

jflat06 Staff Lv 1

I have actually been experimenting with a compromise.

Basically, the move tool is a toggle. It wont show up automatically, but when you enable it, whatever your current selection is will be what it lets you move (and if you don't have anything selected, it will let you move everything). So if you don't want it popping up, just leave it off until you need it, or if you always want it on, just enable it.

The other cool thing about this is it adds some extra power to the move tool in selection. Whichever segments you have selected are the pieces that will be moved. So you can have a bunch of pieces of protein with cuts between them, and move ONLY the ones you want, and they will move all together.

TheGUmmer Lv 1

I am another that always works in the selection interface. I find it much easier to work with.
The only question I have is, is the Cut Tool on the selection interface? If not it needs to be added.

RicGray Lv 1

The issue with pressing 3 bringing you back into the original interface is a bug that will be fixed in the next release.