> I have spent some time this weekend playing with the applet. ...
> It really seems to work well and have lots of flexibility.
Good!
> Now to a couple of issues on Mac OSX.
> In Safari all of the mousing around features seem to work as
> advertised. However, in Camino and Mozilla the right mouse button
> simply resets the structure. The contextual menu is not opened as it
> is in Safari and I assume on Windows platforms. Also in these two
> browsers, the control right mouse button has no effect -- no
> translation. For both the command-left mouse does open the contextual
> menu.
We need to do some work on the popup/contextual menu on OS X.
The Apple spec is that Control-click brings up the popup menu. However, I
did not know this when I wrote the code. So I need to get a few hours on
an OS X box to take a look.
I am discouraged/concerned to hear that the behavior on Camino/Mozilla is
different. It looks like they are mapping the right button to the
middle-button ... I hope that the mouse event behavior on Camino/Mozilla
is not different from Safari ...
A side note ... Java defines a special call [isPopupMenu() ?] so that you
can be platform-independent. However, this did not work successfully on
the older JVMs (NS 4.* on Mac OS 9 and Win32). But I'll take another look
at it.
> I sometimes find the rotation of a molecule somewhat jerky in Mozilla,
> more so than in the others.
Sounds like a Mozilla issue.
> Wish: I would like to see a "heteroatom" choice in the selection
> contextual menu. That would allow the user to select any atoms (like
> metals) that are not part of the list. That can be done in the
> scripting, but I would like to be able to do it as a user.
This can be easily done.
Is there a *short* list of other things?
> Question: I have played with the "move" script and have figured out
> what most of the spaces are for. But what are the 7th and 8th for?
> Can't seem to make them do anything.
The 7th and 8th parameters to 'move' are ignored. The spots are maintained
for backward compatibility with existing scripts.
The 7th parameter is for translation in the z dimension. It is essentially
the same as saying:
translate z 25
which also does ... absolutely nothing.
The 8th parameter is for a minimum frame rate. But I thought it was a bad
idea. Jmol does the best frame-rate that it can, up to 30 frames/second,
but will *always* hit time time target.
move {x-rotation} {y-rotation} {z-rotation} {zoom-factor} {x-translation}
{y-translation} {z-translation IGNORED} {frame-rate IGNORED} {time}
> I have been using the brief jmol applet and jmol scripting documents
> from the web sites as a guide. Do all of these commands still work
> with the most recent version?
No, not all of them are working.
Many are obsolete in version 10. The recommended/new way to accomplish
these things is by using script commands.
I have tagged some of them in the current v8 documentation as
'Deprecated', but probably haven't tagged all of them. Sorry.
> I seem to be having trouble with a few,
> but it may be my "novicehood"?
Stick with using 'script'
> My latest venture is displayed at :
> http://www.saintmarys.edu/~pbays/Complexes/Complexes.htm.
> Obviously, we are doing some meta- ligand chemistry in my intro course
> :)
Looks great!
I am going to try to drag you into the 'colors' discussion ... What color
do you think that Magnesium should be?
If you can, please send me 1 paragraph (no more!) that tells me about the
interesting 'bonding' of ferrocene :-)
Miguel
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