Ribbons View Menu.
The View Widget is a PopUp Choice invoked from the Menubar.
Selection of an item affects an overall change in the viewing style. These
are all toggle or push-button operations. Most invoke sub-menus.
Widget Name (Accelerator Keys) --- description of function
- Reset View (Alt-o) -- restore scale/rotation/translation to default, or last values from Read
Orientation.
- Fast Draw Mode (Alt-f) -- toggle for minimal representation for fastest interaction.
- Stereo (none) -- invoke submenu for hardware viewer (Alt-3), side-by-side (Alt-2), or
rotations about Y (Alt-y, undo with Alt-u) for saving stereo images.
The half-rotations are for stereo views exactly down an axis.
- Hide/Show Objects (none) -- invoke submenu to turn on/off all ribbons, spheres, etc, in order to
speed up interactive response.
- Rotate +/- 90 (none) -- invoke submenu for orthogonal rotations about any axis, or to view down
any axis.
- B/W Background (Alt-g) -- toggle between white and black background, use Light Control Panel to
set to arbitrary color.
- Outline Image (none) -- invoke submenu to set width of black outlines around primitives, for
'line-drawing' effect.
- Rock (Alt-k) -- toggle a rocking motion of the display.
Rocking parameters are set in the Motion Panel.
- Auto-Rot Disabled (none) -- toggle allowing 'spinning'
triggered by quick rotate/release action.
- Grid (none) -- toggle display of a 5 angstrom grid underlay, whose color is gray (#9)
by default.
- Peptide Plane (none) -- toggle display of the S.S.Peptide Plane rocket ship, for flying over
the ribbon.
- Cockpit View (none) -- toggle display from the perspective of the Plane, currently, must use
mouse motion to drive the plane.
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