I downloaded the JmolApplet 10pre5 release the other day, and started learning how to embed it into my pages. I noticed some odd behavior while I was experimenting with the applet.
If a user "command clicks" to activate the contexual menu and then changes his mind and wishes to dismiss the menu, the user must click inside the JmolApplet window. If the user clicks outside the JmolApplet window, the contextual menu will not be deactivated.
Admittedly, it took me only two clicks to realize that I might want to try clicking inside the JmolApplet window, but I wonder if others might become frustrated and simply close the entire browser window. Actually, I just managed to bring up a contextual menu that nearly covered the entire JmolApplet window, only one column of pixels remained. I observed this behavior in Mozillia 1.6 and Safari 1.0.1 running on OS X 10.2.8. Strangely, one does not have to click in the JmolApplet window to dismiss the contextual menu when viewing the embedded applet using Camino 0.7 (of course, as you previously noted mousing doesn't work correctly in Camino)
Another contextual menu issue that I noticed was that in Mozilla and Camino the full contextual menu doesn't appear on screen. Mozilla puts the contextual menu just below the mouse click, but some of the menu winds up off the screen. With Camino, the position of the contextual menu depends on whether the Toolbar is showing, When the toolbar is showing the contextual menu appears several millimeters below the initial mouse click. When the toolbar isn't showing, the contextual menu appears just below the initial mouse click. In both cases, part of the contextual menu is off the screen. In contrast, Safari will move the contextual window up, so the whole menu fits on the screen.
Another weird one that happens in Mozilla. Once the mouse is used to rotate a molecule, my keyboard no longer works. For example, the "command w" key combination doesn't work, and I cannot type in the url field. Clicking the close button works, and the "command q" key combination works too. This isn't a problem in Safari.
These issues seem more like browser issues, but I just wanted to make certain they weren't JmolApplet issues.
Thanks, Chris
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