[Jmol-users] JmolShell - A simple shell for Jmol presentations

[Craig T. Martin]

First, thanks to Miguel for his help in getting my JmolShell package 
together. Briefly, this package is for use by students in a Biomolecular 
Structure course in the preparation of Jmol-based presentations on "their 
favorite protein." It is trying to be as user-friendly as possible without 
requiring the students to know much HTML or JavaScript programming. I want 
them to focus on the science.

A work in progress demo can be seen at:
 http://www.chem.umass.edu/~cmartin/JmolShell/WingedHelixII
and I welcome feedback.
For those of you who have seen this previously, I re-wrote it to avoid the 
use of frames. That was causing problems with invoking the Jmol.js library 
routines. Since it is now "fancier," it breaks in old browsers. Any tips on 
detecting when I will and will not have problems and alerting the user as 
such?

It works fine in Safari on my Mac (after the Developer upgrade of Java). 
Seems to work fine on the one PC I have tested it on.

Question for the next phase:
How can I get information from the Java applet using JavaScript? 
Specifically, I'd like to put up a window that parses Jmol replies from 
user actions: id'ing atoms, getting distances, etc.?

I see from the following link:
  http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0171.html
that it is technically possible to get Java variables from JavaScript. Are 
there hooks in Jmol right now?

Craig Martin
Chemistry, LGRT 701       545-3299
http://www.chem.umass.edu/~cmartin 

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