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<p><em>User Defined Colours</em></p>
-<p><img src="userDefined.gif" width="719" height="368"> </p>
+<p><img src="userDefined_java6.gif" width="719" height="368"> </p>
<p>You may define any number of new colour schemes, each with a unique name. <br>
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- Each of the residues in a new colour scheme may be assigned a new user defined
- colour. <br>
- <br>
+ Each of the residues in a colour scheme may be assigned any chosen colour. <br>
+ Select one or more residues, then select the desired colour.<br/>
+ Use Ctrl-click to select multiple residues, or click then Shift-click to select a block.<br/>
+ Note that the currently selected buttons are highlighted by a lighter text colour.
+ <p>
+ The 'Case Sensitive' option allows you to choose distinct colours for upper and
+ lower case residue codes.
+ <p>
Click "Apply" or "OK" to set your new colours on the active
- alignment window. </p>
-<p>Click "Cancel" to undo your changes if you pressed the "Apply"
- button. <br>
- <br>
- If you save your colour scheme with a unique name the colour scheme name will
+ alignment window.<br/>
+ Click "Cancel" to undo your changes if you pressed the "Apply"
+ button.
+ </p>
+ If you save your colour scheme with a unique name, the colour scheme name will
be added to the "Colour" menu on each new alignment window.<br>
<br>
Any saved colour schemes will be automatically loaded the next time you use
Jalview.</p>
+ Note: the screenshot shows the appearance when running Java version 6. For Java 7, only the Swatches colour chooser is
+ currently supported (for reasons of available screen space).
+ <p/>
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