On Monday 28 October 2002 18:06, Fabian Dortu wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:04, Egon Willighagen wrote:
>     3. the crystal window is often marked available (menu item not grey)
> when file does not support crystal data (Fabian)
>
> Actually, this issue was already discussed when I sent the crystal patch
> for the first time. I decided to make the crystal dialog always enabled
> because a user may want to use a simple XYZ (for example) file
> containing the unit cell atoms and then add the necessary information to
> generate the crystal. For example the site
> http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/ provides XYZ files for a bunch of
> crystalline structure and crystal information can be read on screen.
> However, as ShelX is now supported, it may be more logical to transform
> the XYZ file into a ShelX by incorporating the crystal info.
> Merely a question of philosophy.

That's right... I forgot... maybe can have it disabled by default, because 
that is the normal behaviour of the other options... and add a menu option to 
generate a crystal? Would that make sense?

Egon


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