Mouse Manipulations
This section describes how to use the mouse in the
drawing area. MOLMOL can only be
(reasonably) used with a mouse with at least two buttons.
If you have a three button mouse, the right mouse button
displays a popup menu.
The usual terms will be used to describe mouse input:
- click
- Press one (or multiple) mouse button(s), and release
them without moving the mouse.
- drag
- Press one (or multiple) mouse button(s), move the
mouse, and release the button(s).
The following list refers to the left and middle button
of a three button mouse. If your mouse has only two
buttons (as is commonly the case with Windows), the
second (right) button of your mouse will take the role
of the middle button.
- click left
- Select item closest to position of mouse pointer,
deselecting everything else.
- click left, while holding down Shift or Ctrl key
- Select item closest to position of mouse pointer
in addition to already selected items.
- click middle
- Same as click left.
- drag left
- Rotate molecules, using the virtual trackball model.
- drag middle
- Translate molecules in direction of mouse movement.
- drag left+middle
- Zoom. Moving right/up zooms in, moving left/down
zooms out.
When used over text labels, the middle mouse button
takes on different functionality:
- click middle
- Toggle selection of text label.
- drag middle
- Move/resize text label, depending on the position within
the text labels. Different zones are indicated with
dashed lines, the zones on the edges/corners are for
resizing, the one in the middle is for moving the label.
If you need a quick reminder of these manipulations, you
can view a table with the HelpMouse command.
Last modified: Mon Jan 20 19:44:56 CST 2003
Reto Koradi, kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch