Controls for Presentations in PE
This help can be displayed at any time by pressing the circled blue question mark in the small bottom frame.
Show this help automatically.

• Drag on the molecule with the mouse at any time to rotate it.

• Click on these buttons to show the molecular images in the presentation. Clicked buttons change to .

  Controls below are in the small frame at the bottom.

• Clicking the circled blue question mark in PE's small lower left frame displays this help.

• The font size can be increased for large audiences. Individuals may wish to decrease the font size so that more text fits in the frame. Click the large A to increase font size, and click the small A to reduce font size.

• Click to disable display of pop-up details. Some images in the presentation may be accompanied by details that will pop up in a small window. When pop-up details display is disabled, this button changes to . Click it again to re-enable display of details.

• (Not yet implemented.) In a future version of PE, these buttons will enable lecturers to gray-out buttons they don't plan to show.

Access to Self-Directed Exploration

At any time, you can use Protein Explorer for self-directed exploration of an image in the presentation. This could be used to answer an unanticipated question from the audience. You can then return to the presentation and restore the original image and continue in the presentation.

If you have not used Protein Explorer (PE) before, there are introductory flash movies Getting Started in Protein Explorer, and a one-hour tour available from PE's FrontDoor.

To begin self-directed exploration, scroll the control panel if needed until you can see a cluster of convenience buttons (Spin, Zoom, etc.). Beneath the cluster of buttons are links to QuickViews and the PE Site Map. Use these to access PE's other control panels, for self-directed exploration.

When you wish to return to the presentation, find the cluster of buttons in the current control panel, and open the PE Site Map. At the top of it will be the title of the presentation, as a link back to the presentation.

Access to PE's message box and command entry slot

To identify atoms by clicking on them with the mouse, you need to make Protein Explorer's message window visible. To do this:

Windows:
• Drag up the top boundary of the small frame containing the presentation control buttons (at the lower left), until that frame is about 40% of the height of the window. The message box will appear automatically. Then click on the atom(s).
  Opening the message window also enables you to enter Chime commands directly, if you are familiar with the command language. (To learn more about it, click the blue question mark next to the command entry slot.)

• To restore the presentation-control icons, drag down the top boundary of the command entry/message window frame, until it is approximately the original small size.

  Macintosh:

• Dragging the frame boundary (as above for Windows) blanks the control panel permanently. You can scroll the lower left frame down until you can see the message box, without changing the size of the frame, but the view is too small to be satisfactory, so ...

• Quit from the PiPE. At the Contents page for the PiPE, set the radio button at the top to "Development mode". Now re-start the PiPE Chapter of interest. In this mode, the message box is wide open.

Constructing your own Presentations in Protein Explorer (PiPEs)

Here are step-by-step instructions.