6.5.1 Using the Atom Styles, Atom Labels, Atom Colours and Show/hide Dialogue Boxes

You may be presented with one of the following dialogue boxes when setting atom display properties:

If there were atoms selected before the dialogue box was opened (see Section 2.6.3), only the top part of the box will be shown and there will be Cancel and OK buttons at the bottom instead of Close.

All the dialogue boxes work in basically the same way.

Select the desired display-property setting by switching on the appropriate button in the top area of the box.

If atoms were selected before the dialogue box was opened, all you then have to do is hit OK. This closes the dialogue box and applies the setting you have chosen to the selected atoms.

If no atoms were selected before the dialogue box was opened, use the buttons in the lower half of the box to apply the chosen display-property setting to:

Picked atom(s) - click on the required atoms.

Picked molecule(s) - click on one atom of the required molecule(s).

All Atoms, all Non-hydrogen atoms only, or all Hydrogen atoms only.

The Atom Colours dialogue box allows you to colour By Element (see Section 6.6.1), By Symmetry equivalence (see Section 6.6.2) or assign a customised Colour. If you select the latter, you should then click on the coloured panel to choose the colour you want; this will open the Select Color dialogue box (see Section 6.5.2).