Hmm...let me look at this again. I'm now confused. I thought we decided that
jmolColorPicker should take an appletID. It is much more convenient for using
all these functions to just specify the appletID in the call to the function.
I'm still not clear on why one would want to use a separate setTarget function
as you might have to call it multiple times in quick succession if you have
lots of different applets on a page (suppose you have a table of applets each
displaying a different property and menus below the table for controlling
something about each property).
I'll look at the code some more and think more carefully about what the
different functions do. But I'm not proposing to remove the old functionality
just extend it to what I think is a more convenient syntax.
Jonathan
On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> It should be that all functions that create HTML and start like this:
>
> function jmol....(script, label, id, title)
>
> that is, that users use to create buttons and such, NEVER use any appletID.
> You are supposed to set the target first with jmolSetTarget() and then
> execute those.
>
> Functions like
>
> function _jmol....
>
> which are not documented for user use and are called by other Jmol.js
> functions may or may not accept the target text or create their own. I'm
> pretty sure there's a reason in each case why they do or don't, so please
> don't do anything with those. Ain't broke; don't fix it! :)
>
> I haven't looked at the widget JS to see if it's consistent with this, but if
> not it needs to be.
>
> So, Jonathan, before you change anything, send us some suggested revisions so
> we can think through if there was some reason it was that way. (Probably was!)
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> 2010/7/7 Angel Herráez <angel.herr...@uah.es>
> El 7 Jul 2010 a las 10:42, Robert Hanson escribió:
>
> > You mean in Jmol.js?
>
> Yes, that's Jonathan's idea, changing Jmol.js
>
> I suspect there must be some reason why we have the two methods: use
> appletID parameter for jmolScript() and similar ones, or use
> jmolSetTarget() for the others, but Jonathan sees no reason why it
> cannot be done.
> I also think that a single method would make life easier (I keep
> forgetting about setTarget)
>
>
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