What's new in RasMol 2.7.5
Jun 4, 2013
- Correction to the support for core CIF data file loads that was disabled in the move to CBFlib in place of the internal CIF support.
- Correction to the CCP4 map read logic in the case of symmetry lines.
- Clarification to the install instructions for 64-bit unix systems.
- The major changes in RasMol 2.7.5 are:
- Support for SBEVSL movie commands.
- Support for Lee-Richards surface approximation by contouring pseudo-Gaussian electron densities.
- Selection of atoms by proximity to map contours.
- Coloring of maps by the colors of neighboring atoms.
- Significant improvements to the GTK version.
New in RasMol 2.7.4 (Jun 4, 2013)
- Extended language support. Messages and menus in Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish are now supported on systems with appropriate fonts.
- Support for maps. On systems with sufficient memory, RasMol now can read maps in CCP4 and CBF map formats and can write maps in CBF map format. Maps of density from pseudo-Gaussian atoms can be generated. Support is provided for generation of surfaces for SAXS bead models.
- An MS windows installer was proposed and reimplemented on the open source base of NSIS-2.21.
- A unix installer script, rasmol_install.sh, and a matching script to select an appropriate binary version to run under unix, rasmol_run.sh have been added by H. J. Bernstein
- Two new options have been added for export of VRML images: "rotate" and "mirror".
- write vrml mirror
- will write a vrml file with all axes mirrored (x -> -x, y -> -y and z -> -z) and
- write vrml rotate
- will write a vrml file rotated 180 degrees around the x-axis (x - > x, y -> -y, z-> -z)
- Export Raster3D scripts from RasMol was integerated with this release, and support for ribbons was added.
- In order to support builds on newer 64-bit unix systems.
- Other Corrections and improvements:
- Fix torsion angle calculation .
- Corrections to port to more platforms.
- Code to read remediated PDB entries.
- Updated icons.
- Extended export menus.
- Alignment of command line sizing and positioning options for Windows and X-Windows version. The command line options -height nnnn, -width nnnn, -xpos nnnn and -ypos nnnn may be used to set the size and position of the initial window.
- Change of the encoding for Japanese messages and menus from SJIS to EUC-JP, and corrections to the fontset handling for Chinese and Japanese. Thanks to Mamoru Yamanishi for contributing the improved fontset logic.
- Updates to the rasmol_install.sh and rasmol_run.sh scripts to support Chinese and Japanese using cxterm.
- Optional use of GTK. Thanks to Teemu Ikonen for the new GTK code.
New in RasMol 2.7.3 (Jun 4, 2013)
- Adjustment to the mouse handling for a better, more natural feel. Our thanks to C. Chigbo for the suggestion.
- Correction to cif.c for blanks after an initial quote mark. cif.c.patch
- Correction to mswin31.c to restore lost initializations of ZRange and DialValue[8..9]. mswin31.c.patch
- Correction to vector.c for nested bond rotations. vector.c.patch
- Modifications to Imakefile and rasmol.c to use xforms for GUI file open. xforms.patch. This patch needs the opens source xforms 1.0.90 library. The cummulative patch is given in the link above. The individual patches are available at xforms/
- Correction to molecule.c to correct input of xyz files.
- Revision to CPK colors by C. Chigbo. cpknew.patch. The new colors are called CPKNEW. The current CPK colors remain available as CPK.
- Correction to negative torsion angle monitors and to imprecise distance and angle monitors. datconsis.patch. (Revised 16 Jan 2005). This patch corrects the display of negative torsion angles caused by use of the unsigned short type, and correctys imprecise distance and angle displays. This extends the original patch which was just for torsion angles (torsion.patch). A side effect of this change is to limit the available range for distance monitors to approximately 327 Ångstroms.
- Initial code for display of solid Lee-Richards molecular surfaces. surface3.patch. This patch adds the basic code for display of Lee-Richards surfaces with a new Molecular Surface menu item, and surface molecule and surface solvent commands. Two other, related, major patches are pending that depend upon this one: code by P. Zhivkov to simulate surfaces efficiently by blurring and code to display surfaces using OpenGL.
- Corrections of ribbons 0, etc. comb3.patch. (Revised 18 Jan 05). With this patch, the wireframe 0, ribbon 0, cartoon 0, backbone 0, strands 0 and trace 0 commands work the same as these command with off instead of 0.
New in RasMol 2.7.2.1.1 (Jun 4, 2013)
- For most users there should be no operational changes from version 2.7.2.1, except for the correction to the loading of PDB exchange dictionary CIFS.
- Note: Patches to command.c were included to fix the handling of load inline in the UCB multiple molecule environment. In addition conditional code controlled by STRICT was disabled to restore operation of load inline under windows.
New in RasMol 2.7.2.1 (Jun 4, 2013)
- Adaption of the multilingual mods from RasMol 2.7.1.1 into Rasmol 2.7.2.1
- Rewrite of the mouse handling and rotation logic to correct the problems in 2.7.2 and make the feel of 2.7.2.1 closer to that of RasMol 2.7.1
- Addition of French menus and messages
- Addition of Italian menus and messages
- Adoption of picking for selection of atoms, groups or chains from RasTop 1.3
- Adoption of backclipping from RasTop 1.3
- Adoption of shadepower command for glassy surfaces from RasTop 1.3
- Change of the menu stereo option to rotate cross-wall-none
- Allow longer atom names (12 characters) in CIFs