On Monday 28 October 2002 21:08, Fabian Dortu wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 18:40, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > 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? > > But before generating the crystal, you still need to input the data > (cell lengths, angles)...
Yes., indeed. Sorry for not making myself that clear... I had in mind that the menu option would pop up the crystal properties window... Egon ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
