Chris, Thanks for taking the time to send such detailed feedback.
> 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. Hmmm ... good catch. There are probably a few more mouse/cursor events that we need to track. Not sure how to handle it ... maybe we need to watch the cursor position and reset our state if the cursor goes outside our window. > 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) Interesting. I'll bet the behavior could be very browser and os platform dependent. The different OSes could generate different events and the different browsers may or may not pass those events to the applet. Could be a 'challenge'. > 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. You are saying that it is 'off the screen'. Do you mean that you are clicking near the edge of the screen and then the menu spills off the edge (or bottom) of the screen? If so, I honestly don't know if there is anything I can do about it. > In contrast, Safari will move > the contextual window up, so the whole menu fits on the screen. That's good. > 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. Here is my theory. Once you click on the JmolApplet it has focus. Keyboard events are then sent to the JmolApplet. The JmolApplet ignores keyboard events. Since they are not handled then they should be propogated to the enclosing window ... Mozilla. Seems like this isn't happening. Which JVM is Mozilla using? If it is using 1.3 then I'll bet it is an Apple bug. You can determine which JVM is being used by opening Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console and then looking at the first few lines after the JmolApplet is loaded. > 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. There certainly are some 'browser issues' involved, but I suspect we can make some changes/enhancements to the JmolApplet to better handle the situation. Thanks again, 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
