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.
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