[Jmol-users] Re: use of frames

Andy Bates Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:42:28 -0800

Title: [Jmol-users] Re: use of frames

Angel and Folks

There was an earlier discussion about the desirability of managing without frames, so in that spirit, I put together the following with a scrolling div - I had previously used frames with Chime. As long as the div is 'position: absolute' and 'overflow: auto', then it works fine (with Jmol.js):

http://www.liv.ac.uk/sbs/DNA_Topology/HelixL.htm

Cheers

Andy

ps Separate issue - this tutorial also features the consequences of setting the centre of rotation causing the model to be re-centred (subject of another recent discussion). I have bodged it with various translations, but things still jump around a bit, when it would be ideal if they stayed still.

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At 6:18 pm +0100 1/3/05, Angel Herraez wrote:

Thanks to all for your prompt replies.

Tim, I wasn't referencing the applet since I am using Jmol.js, as Bob
has commented.

Bob, thanks for your extensive and very helpful reply; I know it can
be done with tables, but I didn't want to, since I like to have a
scrollable text and a common, static model. I hear everywhere that
frames are going away, but I still haven't found something that does
what you get so easily with frames. Today I have tried to do it with
DIVs, but I have gone half-mad wih it.

I already thought that it could have to do with the use of different
frames but it was working perfectly with the model in the left-side
frame (in fact, a couple of days ago I have ported a whole set of
pages using Eric's 2-frame template from Chime to Jmol).
Reading Bob, I guess the "looking for frames" routine is finding the
applet in the first frame but not in the second one. I will try to
use Bob's suggested tweak.

For the record, Miguel, I tested with Firefox 1.0 and IE6.0, both in
WinXPpro-sp2. They behave the same (I mean just for this ;-).

Thanks again. I will let you know about my progress.

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