Dear Jalview developers, Just a quick word to ask for a feature that would be greatly appreciated from the users of Jalview on the "Mobyle" portals (and maybe elsewhere?): we released officially a short time ago a feature that allows users to visualize data in applets like Jalview or Archaeopteryx, but also to bookmark them back to the server. This is apparently a popular feature, and had been asked for a long time.
Additionally, we wanted to enable users to take screenshots of the data as viewed in the applets, for publication purpose for instance. Thanks to Christian Zmasek, we have been able to add a method in the Archaeopteryx applet that returns the a screenshot of the edited phylogenetic tree in a chosen format, eg JPEG, and byte 64 encoded so that it can be retrieved as a string using javascript. Following this, the byte 64 encode string is sent to the server, where it is appropriately decoded and saved in the user workspace. This way users can take screenshots of their trees anytime during their work and save them for future use. First user trainings show that users like a lot this feature, but would like to get it as well in Jalview... I know my technical explanations are probably not extremely clear, if you prefer to see the code, here is the forester revision where I included this feature in Archaeopteryx: https://code.google.com/p/forester/source/detail?r=273. Please let me know if something similar can be considered for Jalview. Best, Hervé Ménager _______________________________________________ Jalview-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss
