I just watched as an SVN check-in turned into an SVN full deletion of
everything I had done in the last 16 hours (totally rewriting the menuing
system to use Swing in Java AND JavaScript. Argh!) I was able to stop it
half-way through, and I got lucky in that my signature file is not on the
path and also I had just before that done a JSmol build, which copies just
about all the source to another project. That and a recent JSpecView build
meant I had all files except one tiny one and just had to piece it all
together again. Whew! That was 3 hours I could have been sleeping.
In any case, you should not notice anything different from what I did.
However, the HTML5 popup menu in JavaScript (untested since this last
little debacle) is now using Swing even though it is JavaScript.
Interestingly, the code that is different between JavaScript and Java for
all the menuing amounts to two short files --
org.jmol.popup.JSSwingPopupHelper and org.jmol.popup.AwtSwingPopupHelper
that are completely independent of Jmol itself.
Basically what we have now is a system that allows you to write all the
code in Java, even for Swing classes, in just about any project, and then
convert it to JavaScript in a flash. I think that's significant. This is
something that is completely impossible with GWT.
Onward, ho!
Bob
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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