On 2005-03-22 (08:46) Miguel wrote: > >>G'day, >> >>There haven't been any further comments about this, so here is a >>draft RFE covering the suggestions so far: > >=5Bsnip=5D > >Chris, > >Thank you very much for writing this up. > >It is quite helpful to have a well-defined specification of exactly >what needs to be done ... even if it might seem obvious. > >
hello, from a user's standpoint, the ability to click on atoms and view distances and angles is extremely useful. from a developer's standpoint, though, I have found picking modes a royal pain (in Chime). recently, I think it was off-list, Eric Martz suggested a feature that I think would be an excellent complement to this functionality. I would like to hear what other developers think about it (with apologies to Eric). when you click an atom in Jmol, the event returns a string describing the target atom. assuming you have pickcallback implemented, you can capture this data and use it in Javascript. Eric suggested that the atom click also return, in some fashion, distance and angle data. for example, the distance would be the distance from the clicked atom to the previously clicked atom; the angle would include the previous two clicked atoms. the picking mode would not affect this data flow, which is a key element - as a developer, I could store all of this information for later use without having to deal with setting modes, unsetting modes, etc. I think this idea has a lot of potential for development on top of Jmol. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement in Jmol. any thoughts? regards, tim -- Timothy Driscoll molvisions - see, grasp, learn. <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:raleigh "What a man desires, he also imagines to be true." - Demosthenes ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows Mobile Application Contest Submit applications for Windows Mobile(tm)-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones for the chance to win $25,000 and application distribution. Enter today at http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idh82&alloc_id148&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
