The main window is divided in the following areas:
Used to access all the operations (except hide/show mulecule performed through the tree widget): I/O, change molecule display settings, reset view, select interaction mode, compute/show molecular surfaces, perform analysis and others. Some operations are also accessible through accelerators or toolbar buttons.
Group of buttons used as shortcuts for performing the most common tasks.
Displays the following information:
Lists all the objects (molecules and surfaces) contained in the 3D scene: individual objects can be shown or hidden by checking or un-checking the checkbox on the left of the object name.
Right-clicking on any item will pop-up a menu for accessing a number of commonly used functions.
This window shows all the information available for the currently selected molecule; molecules can be selected by clicking on their name in the Workspace tree widget or clicking on their representation in the 3D view after enabling the "Interact with molecule" (Interation->Molecule) option.
Note: due to some issues with OpenBabel formula computation function, formula display has been disabled in Molekel 5.1 (see OpenBabel bug 1632403).
Displays a 3D representation of all the visible objects (molecules + surfaces) in the scene.
Viewpoint and selected molecule can be moved and rotated through the following actions: