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22 <head><title>User Defined Colours</title></head>
24 <p><strong>User Defined Colours</strong></p>
25 <p><img src="userDefined_java6.gif" width="815" height="402"> </p>
26 <p>You may define any number of new colour schemes, each with a unique name. <br>
28 Each of the residues in a colour scheme may be assigned any chosen colour. <br>
29 Select one or more residues, then select the desired colour.<br/>
30 Use Ctrl-click to select multiple residues, or click then Shift-click to select a block.<br/>
31 Note that the currently selected buttons are highlighted by a lighter text colour.
33 The <strong>Case Sensitive</strong> option allows you to choose distinct colours for upper and
34 lower case residue codes.
36 Click <strong>Apply</strong> or <strong>OK</strong> to set your new colours on the active
37 alignment window.<br/>
38 Click <strong>Cancel</strong> to undo your changes if you pressed the <strong>Apply</strong>
41 If you save your colour scheme with a unique name, the colour scheme name will
42 be added to the <strong>Colour</strong> menu on each new alignment window.<br>
44 Any saved colour schemes will be automatically loaded the next time you use
47 <em>Note: the screenshot shows the appearance when running Java version 6. For Java 7 (from Jalview 2.8.2) only the Swatches colour chooser is
48 currently supported (for reasons of available screen space).</em>