Rotate Selected not working in ChimeraX 1.7

[RHennellJames]

In ChimeraX 1.6/ArtiaX 0.3, when "Rotate Selected" was active, dragging with the right mouse button near the centre of the screen rotated the particle around the x and y axes of the user view and dragging with the right mouse button at the edge of the screen rotated the particle around the z axis of the user view. In ChimeraX 1.7/ArtiaX 0.3 even if I drag at the very edge of the view I can only rotate in x and y. This makes it very difficult to correctly orient particle axes in the tomogram plane.

Dragging at the edge of the screen still rotates around z when the normal ChimeraX Right Mouse/Rotate Model is active, so I think this is an ArtiaX-specific issue.

For now I have gone back to ChimeraX 1.6

[uermel]

Hi @RHennellJames, this should be fixed in the latest release!

You should now be able to use the mouse modes as before. Download is available from the Toolshed or the release page on this repository.

[RHennellJames]

Hi @uermel, Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have solved the issue. In ChimeraX 1.6/Artiax 0.3 when I drag with the right mouse button at the edge of the screen the particle rotates about the z axis of the screen (not the z axis of the particle). In ChimeraX 1.7/Artiax 0.4.1 dragging with the right mouse button at the edge of the screen still rotates the particle around the x or y axes of the screen. It doesn't seem to be possible to rotate the particle around the screen z axis with Rotate Selected Particles anymore.

When I select another object (e.g. a PDB structure) in ChimeraX 1.7 and set ui mousemode right "rotate selected models", dragging with the right mouse button still rotates the object around the z axis of the screen. I think there must have been a change in ChimeraX 1.7 that affects whatever function ArtiaX uses for ui mousemode right "rotate selected particles".

I am trying to select proteins in a membrane and then rotate the particle so the z axis of the particle is normal to the membrane and therefore parallel to the plane of the tomogram (because the membrane is parallel to the plane of the tomogram). I found the easiest way to do this is to rotate about x or y so the z arrow of the particle is in the tomogram plane and then rotate about the z axis until the z arrow points in the right direction. With ChimeraX 1.7 neither Artiax 0.3 or Artiax 0.4.1 allows this.

[uermel]

Hi @RHennellJames, thank you for the quick feedback. Indeed, I forgot to include a fix prepared by Deborah, a new contributor.

This behavior is now available again (in version 0.4.2 on ChimeraX 1.7.1): https://github.com/FrangakisLab/ArtiaX/assets/6641113/7cf025fd-edb0-454e-b600-308643e1e2e6

Is that what you are looking for?

[RHennellJames]

Hi @uermel,

Yes that fixed it. Thanks for updating so quickly!