In February of 2005 the default in Jmol was changed from "zoom 100" scaling to fit the the smaller dimension (so that a model is automatically always on screen) to scaling to fit the larger dimension (so that a model generally goes off screen along the smaller dimension, but fills the applet in the larger dimension.) Now that we can resize the applet and application easily, people are going to start doing it, these questions will come up. So I ask them now.
1) Why was that done? (Miguel?) 2) Could we ever consider going back to the Chime default? (users?) My problem: First, this change has always bugged me. I didn't understand the rationale then, and I can't remember it now. I don't see why anyone would one ever want the molecule to automatically be larger than the window in one dimension. Second, the current situation is definitely undesireable when writing a rectangular JPEG or popping up a new resizable applet window. This causes us to have to hack the state code to remove zoomLarge=true from the state if doing this sort of manipulation. Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
