at 12.08p EDT on 2004 February 05 Thursday Miguel Howard said: > >> It would be straightforward to do. > >> > >> Draw me a picture of what you want. > >> > >> Think about the scripting commands to turn it off, turn it on, control > >> color, etc. > >> > > ok, I will put some thought into this idea. it is not as 'simple' as I > > originally envisioned, actually. for example, what happens when you > > zoom with the mouse? > > Actually, I don't think that zooming with the mouse would be a problem ... > the scale will automatically change. > ok - you know better than I of course. :-)
> A bigger issue is where you set the zero point > originally, I had envisioned just a simple bar, like this: |----| 5A placed just above the Jmol emblem, as Jan suggested. so I wasn't really considering a zero point. but if you implement a ruler, which is a more useful tool, the zero point could be the center of gravity of the molecule. > If all you want is a simple ruler across the bottom then we can probably > do that. Then you can play with it and see what enhancements you want to > make. > that sounds cool! horizontal and vertical both, docked to the edge of the applet? some initial script command suggestions: show ruler [x | y] hide ruler [x | y] # default color could be light gray but... color ruler [hexcode | definedcolor] # can one define the number minor gradations between ticks? set gradation [num] :-) :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- 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
