Highlight atom under mouse cursorΒΆ

This sample shows how to highlight the atom under the mouse cursor by changing it’s color to red and display it’s name.

Note

While it’s possible to temporarily change the color for highlighting purposes, it’s recommended to use the selection highlighting functionality added in in PV 1.8.0 instead.

This sample requires PV 1.7.0 and higher to work as it relies on functionality that was added in 1.7.0.

 

Source Code

<div id='picked-atom-name' style='text-align:center;'>&nbsp;</div>
<script>
var parent = document.getElementById('viewer');
var viewer = pv.Viewer(parent,
                      { width : 300, height : 300, antialias : true });


function setColorForAtom(go, atom, color) {
    var view = go.structure().createEmptyView();
    view.addAtom(atom);
    go.colorBy(pv.color.uniform(color), view);
}

// variable to store the previously picked atom. Required for resetting the color
// whenever the mouse moves.
var prevPicked = null;
// add mouse move event listener to the div element containing the viewer. Whenever
// the mouse moves, use viewer.pick() to get the current atom under the cursor.
parent.addEventListener('mousemove', function(event) {
    var rect = viewer.boundingClientRect();
    var picked = viewer.pick({ x : event.clientX - rect.left,
                               y : event.clientY - rect.top });
    if (prevPicked !== null && picked !== null &&
        picked.target() === prevPicked.atom) {
      return;
    }
    if (prevPicked !== null) {
      // reset color of previously picked atom.
      setColorForAtom(prevPicked.node, prevPicked.atom, prevPicked.color);
    }
    if (picked !== null) {
      var atom = picked.target();
      document.getElementById('picked-atom-name').innerHTML = atom.qualifiedName();
      // get RGBA color and store in the color array, so we know what it was
      // before changing it to the highlight color.
      var color = [0,0,0,0];
      picked.node().getColorForAtom(atom, color);
      prevPicked = { atom : atom, color : color, node : picked.node() };

      setColorForAtom(picked.node(), atom, 'red');
    } else {
      document.getElementById('picked-atom-name').innerHTML = '&nbsp;';
      prevPicked = null;
    }
    viewer.requestRedraw();
});
pv.io.fetchPdb('_static/1crn.pdb', function(structure) {
    // put this in the viewerReady block to make sure we don't try to add the
    // object before the viewer is ready. In case the viewer is completely
    // loaded, the function will be immediately executed.
    viewer.on('viewerReady', function() {
      var go = viewer.cartoon('structure', structure);
      // adjust center of view and zoom such that all structures can be seen.
      viewer.autoZoom();
    });
});
</script>