> I'm new to Jmol and this is my first posting on the list. Forgive me > if the topic has been covered before.
It is a good question and has not been discussed in quite some time. > I'll begin by saying how great I think this open-source cross > platform initiative is - it has allowed us to provide an alternative > to Chime for Mac OSX and other unix-based platforms in our new > Protein Motif Database > (<http://doolittle.ibls.gla.ac.uk:9006/david/ProteinMotifDB.html> > feedback welcome). The hard work of the development team is much > appreciated. Good. > In the documentation on the applet I found (somewhere) a list of > mouse gestures, with a statement of intention to mirror the Chime > gestures. There are a couple of things going on here: 1. The doc that you read is out of date ... it applies to the previous version of the JmolApplet. But in general I am trying to maintain chime compatibility. 2. The Chime mouse gestures did not work for single button mice. Therefore, I came up with a set that is similar to Chime, but not the same. 3. Apple has some bugs in their support for multi-button mice. That is if you plug in a 2 button, 3 button, or wheel mouse into an OSX box the mouse events do not get registered properly. This is bug in Apple's java implementation. I have been actively working with Apple QA & Engineering to get this issue resolved. I have sent them very simple sample code to demonstrate the problem. Based upon our email exchanges I assume that this issue is fixed and will be released in the next Java release from Apple. > Am I right in thinking that z-rotation, translation and > slabbing are *not* yet implemented (I have the jmol10pre11 applet > mounted at the moment)? If not, anyone any idea why they don't work > on my site? For single-button mice, or using the left-mouse button only, here are the assignments: Z-rotation ---------- Shift-left-drag horizontally (Shift-left-drag vertically changes the zoom level) Translation ----------- shift double-left-click-drag Slab ---- not currently implemented as a mouse gesture With 2 or 3 button mice one can use the left button and use the gestures above. In addition, for Z-rotation one can Shift-right-drag for Z-rotation. It now occurs to me that I could probably reimplement ctrl-right-drag for translation ... so I will see about doing that. (Note that if/when this gets implemented it will not work on current OSX systems with multi-button mice due to the aforementioned Apple Java bug). Now, regarding slab behavior ... You are only the 2nd person who has asked for it. slab is available as a script command, but not as a mouse gesture. Ctrl-left is used in Chime. This cannot be used because it will conflict with OSX. I personally find slab with the mouse to be very confusing ... but I am not a chemist. In addition to 'slab' Jmol also implements 'depth', a slab from the back side. The two should probably be used together. I suggest a slider UI widget with two sliders ... one for the back and one for the front. But such a widget does not yet exist. Let me know what you think. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
