Menus of MarvinSketch

The Menu Bar contains almost all commands that are available in MarvinSketch.

The main menus are groups of functionally similar commands shown in the following picture:
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  • File Menu: contains the available file operations, such as New, Open, Save, Print, and Close. (Note that the unsigned Swing applets contain only a subset of these functions.)

  • Edit Menu: contains general clipboard operations like Copy and Paste, structure selecting and deleting commands, as well as Marvin-specific editing options.

  • View Menu: allows you to alter the way the molecule is displayed without modifying the structure file itself. You can change the molecule display type, background color, color scheme, error highlighting, etc. See also: Structure Display Options. The View menu also contains operations to change the graphical user interface.

  • Insert Menu: allows drawing structure templates, bonds, reaction arrows, graphics, text boxes, and more on the canvas. See also: How To Draw Graphic Objects and Text Boxes.

  • Atom Menu: contains all atom related properties such as charge, atom radicals, maps, and many more.

  • Bond Menu: allows changing the type of a bond, and makes bond properties available like bold, topology, reacting center, etc.

  • Structure Menu: provides chemical functions relating to structures like molecule cleaning, aromatization, reaction-handling, naming and more.

  • Services Menu: contains the available Services.

  • Help Menu: provides information about using the program, technical details and license management.