Hi again - apologies if my email came over as a complaint. I was very happy with Jmol and with the support I got from people, including Egon, at the time. I did submit changes to Jmol to the list, and interest was expressed, and when I say that these changes got lost I meant that development of the program went into other directions. And though I was working on a current version at the time I started, when I was ready to submit my changes I think similar things had already been done in a different way.
The changes I made to the "core" of Jmol involved creating a structure for storing bonds, which was not there at the time, I think - they were calculated automatically and not stored before rendering. I also found a bug that caused every bond to be painted twice. In theoretical terms, the code was going through all fields of the (symmetric) connection matrix when all that was needed was the upper (or lower) triangle. I seem to remember having to consider the order atoms and bonds were painted as well. But these are vague memories, and I'm certain all those issues are irrevelant by now.
In theory, it should be possible to incorporate a new version of Jmol into CaGe, and in my previous email I tried to define the interface that would be needed. In practice, such a thing is not likely to happen, but I remain interested because of the amazing development he applet seems to have had.
My message mainly was about not forgetting my requirements, when I saw that others may have similar ones. I didn't see any arrogance coming from the developers, neither then or now, and I fully understand the resource limits. You're doing great work. Just wanted to point out that relying and possibly improving the applet's "smartness" in terms of bonds and positions may not be all that users want.
Sebastian
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