When the cursor is in the IMAGE window, the mouse can be used beside for picking atoms as a substitute input from dials. (The dials substitution is disabled on the ESV computers.) The mouse has 3 buttons: left (L), middle (M) and right(R). When one or two of them are pressed and moved, they replace input from the current dials set. By default:
The left button (L) can control rotations around X, Y and Z axis. When the cursor is moved within a circle of the image window center, the horizontal movements correspond to rotation about Y axis and vertical about X axis. If cursor is moved outside the circle, its' movement results in rotation about Z axis.
The middle button (M) controls translations along X and Y direction.
The left and middle button (LM) pressed together and moved vertically; they translate image along the Z direction.
The right button (R) controls scaling of the image (zoom). When cursor is moved towards the center of the image window, the image is shrunk, and when it is moving away from it, the image is expanded.
The right and middle button (RM) pressed together control clipping. When the cursor is moved towards the center of the image window, the clipping planes are moved together, and when it is moving away from it, the separation between the clipping planes is increased.
Changing dial definitions will also change the mouse button functions. In general, pressed middle button (M) mimics dials 1 and 2, pressed left and middle button (LM) mimic dial 3, right button (R) mimic dial 4, left button (L) mimics dials 5, 6 and 7, and combination of right and middle button (RM) mimic dial 8.
Releasing a mouse button while still moving the cursor results in a continuation repetition of the last move before the release. So smooth rotations of image on the screen can be achieved.
When mouse doesn't behave properly it needs to be resetted. This happens quite often (on HP it is a rule) when the image window is iconized and then restored.
So reset the mouse by pressing any keyboard character key or type commands
> image mouse off > image mouse on
If you get anoyed with dial rotations (you are unable to pick atoms because you keep moving the image), turn the mouse dial mimicking functions off:
> image mouse off