Timothy Driscoll wrote: > >hi Bob, > >these can certainly remain as external scripts; Eric has made some >tweaks, and I imagine Angel has done some nice work as well. I >suggested adding DRuMS natively to Jmol for two reasons: > >1. external scripts are flexible, but not nearly as easy to apply as >a built-in command set. this is especially applicable to naive users. > > > I read that as "on the popup menu", since anyone who can script at all can have those script files load at will. Right?
>2. I think Jmol would benefit from some expansion of the basic >Rasmolian color scheme set. it would be nice to have built-in >commands equivalent to color structure, color shapely, etc. i.e., >color molecule, color polarity, color charge, color hydrophobicity, >and so on. since we put some significant thought into DRuMS, I >thought it a good place to start. > > > we do have "color molecule" and "color partialcharge", btw. >if it is a painful addition to make, I'm willing to drop it. > > > not painful at all. The thing to realize, though, is that once it's in, it's IN. We don't want to be tweaking it a lot. So some sort of "addon" seems to me the right place to go. I know what you mean, in the sense that maybe this could be on the popup menu so that people who aren't necessarily "in the know" go ahead and try it and maybe like it and find out what it's all about. For that matter, it seems to me that the popup menu itself might be a resource that people could customize. I wonder how difficult that would be to set up. Not very, I think. One of the Jar files, it seems to me, could just have these resources there, and people could have at it to their heart's content. Hmm.... menus that load scripts... scripts that load menus.... why not? Bob ps. so--Friday night.... :) >best, > >tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
