Phil, > This might be a programming nightmare, but I will give it a shot. Atta boy! Speak right up!
> When > the applet loads the file, it "knows" what atoms are present. True > Is it > possible to make the contextual menu a listing of those atoms. Thus, > if the user was working with proteins, there would be the usual > C,H,O,N,S and then any metal or other hetero atoms listed from which > the selection could be made. On the other hand, if the structure was > an inorganic cluster, a different set of atoms would be in the > selection menu. > > Just a thought :) Phil, I think that is a *great* idea ... makes good sense to me. Now, we just need to figure out if there is a clean way to reduce it to code. In general, I have been trying to convert *everything* into script. For example, all of the current popup/contextual menus are implemented as scripts. It makes them easy to maintain and easy to extend/enhance. [Another reason I have been trying to turn everything into scripts is so that we can implement the 'script recorder' ... a mechanism to record interactions and then replay them. If all menu commands are implemented as scripts then we can (relatively) easily record the events for playback.] random thoughts: - it would require java code to generate the menu * that goes against the simplicity that I have been reaching for * maybe it would be OK - perhaps some of the 'common' elements should be greyed-out rather than deleted - I still think it is a *great* idea. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
