In view of a new release, I will fix all the problems Michael pointed out to me.

Fabian

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:08, E.L. Willighagen wrote:
On Monday 06 January 2003 19:25, mth wrote:
> The good news:
>
> While I was on vacation the last week and a half I was able to do quite a
> bit of work on scripting support and on the applet.
>  * The script interpreter is running quite well. It runs as a separate
> thread and interacts properly with redisplay. I think the repaint thread
> synchronization technique can be applied to vibrations and animations to
> improve performance. I wrote the lexical scanning in the tokenizer. This
> eliminates the use of javax.util.regex, eliminating a problem on 1.1
> browser JVMs.
>  * I got the applet running successfully on the new code base. If it
> detects JVM >= 1.2 then it applies antialiasing so that the rendering And
> the script interpreter is available to the applet. I refactored a lot of
> code so that there is much less code which is applet-specific.

That sound like good news indeed!

> The bad news:
>
>  * This will be a big check-in. I changed a lot of stuff. I am sure that I
> broke some things.

Miguel, Fabian, shall we pick a release date for Jmol 6? Could we, for 
example, get a freeze in a few weeks, after we do a two week bug fixing
on the new code?

>  * The applet has problems which loading the CDK AtomColorer. Therefore,
> all the atoms come up in grey. Egon, I will need your help to figure out
> what is going wrong

I'll have a look at it. (Miguel, could you please file it as a bug, in case I 
forget to fix it?)

>  * On 1.1 JVMs (IE and old netscape) there is a problem loading some CDK
> classes. The error message says that the class is not found. But it is in
> the jar files. I couldn't really figure out what was going wrong since I
> wasn't online and didn't have access to resources.

Yes, that sort of things happen... I'll have a look at this too.

> Haven't actually checked this stuff in yet, but plan to do so later today
> or tomorrow morning (European time).

Acknowledge.

BTW, could you hack up an example script that shows/explains (some of) the 
functionality? Is it possible to execute scripts from webpages yet?

Egon


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