The Style Toolbar provides convient access to commonly used style functionality and can be seen in Figure 5.11.
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The first control in the toolbar is a pulldown menu which controls the current scope (see section 3.2) of the application. The next three buttons set the display style of all the atoms and bonds in the current scope to be Wireframe, Stick, and CPK respectively. More details on molecule display styles can be found in section 5.7.1.
The next four buttons turn on and off the display of property style electrostatic grids and molecular surfaces respectively. More details on property style electrostatic grids and molecular surfaces can also be found in section 5.7.1.
The next button indicated with a question mark icon prompts the user for a substructure query (can be SMARTS, SMILES, IUPAC, or common name) and then performs a search over the molecules in the specified scope, selecting those that match the query. If the resulting selection is sufficiently large, the user will be prompted with the option to Mark (see section 3.1.4) the results instead of selecting them. More details on molecule selection can be found in section 5.7.2.
The last three buttons are for coloring atoms and bonds. The first button indicated by the color wheels prompts for a specific color which is the applied to all the atoms and bonds in the specified scope. The second button reverts the color of the atoms and bonds in the specified scope to using element type coloring. The last button colors the atoms and bonds using a ``reference" style which colors all of the carbon atoms the ``Reference Color" (the default is green). More details on molecule coloring schemes can be found in section 5.7.3.