So the "allowkeystrokes" feature simply lets you send commands to the
console?
No, that's not useful for me -- I'm sure someone has tried to implement
navigation-by-keyboard on their jmol-including website before.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Rolf Huehne <rolf.hue...@leibniz-fli.de>
wrote:
> Am 28.03.17 um 17:55 schrieb David Hibbitts:
> > I would like to add keyboard shortcuts to my web application. I can do
> > this with javascript without any issue using something like Mousetrap
> > and I can interact with jsmol via jmolScript calls.
> >
> > The issue comes when using the Java version (which I still use via
> > Waterfox because I'm stubborn and it is faster).
> >
> > The jmol applet in the Java version seems to trap all keystrokes and
> > pass nothing to the underlying browser while the jmol applet has focus
> > -- is there any way to have the jmol applet pass all unbound keystrokes
> > to the browser?
> >
> > Alternatively, is there a way to have jmol call custom functions
> > whenever a key is pressed? If so I can just define the keyboard
> > shortcuts in both Mousetrap and jmol.
> >
> > I attempted to play with set allowKeystrokes and set showKeyStrokes but
> > I didn't really get anywhere. allowKeystrokes just caused my applet to
> > freeze and nothing but a refresh would bring it back. showKeystrokes
> > didn't really work on my screen, although it's possible that the
> > bottom-left corner of the applet is offscreen, set echo top left didn't
> > change anything. Again my testing of allowKeystrokes and showKeystrokes
> > was in the Java version of jmol using Waterfox.
> >
> David, on MacOS 10.11.6 with Waterfox 52.0 the command combination 'set
> allowkeystrokes; set showkeystrokes' does work for me in Jmol 14.9.1.
>
> I could change for example the background color by typing "background
> yellow" and then press RETURN. And the text also appeared at the bottom
> left of the applet window. The whole process was terminated and the
> typed text ignored if I moved the mouse pointer.
>
> But I think this is not quite what you would like to have, isn't it?
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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