Point taken. Right -- what you were doing was a hack due to a bug that was
there -- that some of the load defaults were not being processed with string
data. The model data string is no longer stored, mostly because it could be
very large. But it's a valid point.
Bob
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rickard Armiento
<reply-2...@armiento.net>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you all for your hard work with JMol.
>
> We recently upgraded from Jmol 11.7.16 to 12.0.RC23 and discovered that
> some functionality of the 'load' command is missing. I have also
> confirmed that the problem remains in the latest SVN version (labeled as
> 12.0.RC25_dev.)
>
> The documentation states that 'load "" { 3 3 3 }' reloads the file and
> copies the unit cell 3x3x3 times. However, in 11.7.16 one could do this
> also with data that was entered via the data command. But in the new
> versions this instead gives the error: "script ERROR: cannot find string
> data".
>
> Steps to repeat the problem:
> 1. Open jmol and enter script console.
> 2. Use "data" command to enter a system. E.g.,
> ==============
> data "model example"
> 2
> testing
> C 1 1 1
> O 2 2 2
> end "model example";
> ==============
> 3. Issue a load command:
> load "" {3 3 3}
>
> Result on newer versions: "script ERROR: cannot find string data".
> Result on e.g. 11.7.16: no error (but also no visible change in this
> simple example since no supercell boundary is set).
>
> We have found a workaround. By issuing
> set defaultLattice {3 3 3}
> before one issues the data command gives the same effect as the 'load ""
> {3 3 3}' did afterwards. Still, I think it would be nice to not break
> this script syntax when people upgrade.
>
> Thanks,
> Rickard
>
>
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