The JChemPaint buttons are included into the Bioclipse toolbar whenever a JChemPaint editor is open. You then can select the buttons and their connected actions for editing the molecule displayed within the JChemPaint editor. The following sections will give you a more detailed overview on the different buttons/actions
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Drawing buttons |
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Move buttons |
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Other buttons |
JChemPaint's source code provides only the GUI part, but all the chemoinformational algorithms which make JChemPaint an editor, are provided by CDK. The two main classes of interest are:
The JChemPaint menu is embedded into the Bioclipse menu bar and will just be visible and usable if the JChemPaint editor is open. The following links will guid you to help pages describing the single menu items:
This section describes how JChemPaint can be customized to fit your working
environment. Generally, custom settings are stored in your ${HOME}/.jchempaint
directory. On UNIX like systems, like SunOS, BSD and Linux systems, ${HOME}
is something like /home/user
. The value of ${HOME}
for your system can be
looked up in the Info dialog from the Help menu.