Bob Hanson wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I perfectly agree. I would also prefer going back to the Chime default.
And for those that might prefer the current behaviour a configuration
option could be provided.

Regards,
Rolf

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