On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:05 AM, 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?)
>
sounds like a good idea to me.


> 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.
I can't either, though as I recall there was some lengthy discussion  
about this issue many months ago.


tim
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