On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Eric Martz wrote: Hi Eric,
> Now that java seems to be in a better place than years ago when you made > those nifty java applet slider controls for Chime, can they be adapted to > jmol? Are the source codes available? Yah, I actually went as far as to begin adopting them to Jmol, but got a lukewarm responce on using Java based widgets in the page. I got the feeling from a few people on the list that there were more efficient ways to implement sliders to control Jmol attributes. For those of you who don't know about my prior work with Chime, I created Java applets that could interactively control display attributes via sliders and checkboxes. For instance a slider could control the "spacefill" attribute and you could "dial in" the size you wanted in real time by dragging the slider. You could "target" more than one model in more than one frame and have them all respond at the same time to the slider values. People still use the java based sliders, but unfortunately it requires the last release of Netscape 4.x since it relies on Chime plugin support, and LiveConnect functionality that isn't fully supported in Internet Explorer. Here is an example of my Jmol ports of the Chime sliders (that uses an old version of Jmol unfortunately, but it demonstates what I was doing) http://rna.ucsc.edu/albion/jmol Anyone interested in these? I am reluctant to release the source code at the moment because it has no comments (at a minimum author and funding), and needs to be documented further. If I find true interest in this project, I could be motivated to comment, document, implement and release the source code. Oh yah, the event models are all the old style because I wrote these in the late '90s before Jave 1.2 and the "listener" event model appeared, so the code needs some updating too (in fact originally I wrote my own custom slider because the sliders in the AWT at the time were so buggy, fortunately Swing has provided some more robust slider implementations). Cheers, Albion Albion E. Baucom http://rna.ucsc.edu/albion ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
