On 2005-04-26 (17:09) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Well, on my two odd macs, I get some pretty strange results.
>
>Observations:
>
>1. Loaded the jmolcalls_difapp.html page of Tim's in a window.
>one mac responds only to "direct" button; other only to "applet[]"
>
>2. Loaded the SAME page in a second window, both showing.
>both macs respond to both "direct" and "applet[]" calls in THIS
>window, still only whatever they did before in the first window.
>
>3. At BOTH Macs, ALL of the following work at the URL line:
>
>javascript:alert(document.debug.script("background red"))
>javascript:alert(document.applets.debug.script("background blue"))
>javascript:alert(document.applets[0].script("background green"))
>
>4. On a different occasion, starting jmolcalls.html in the
>first window, the same mac that first only accepted "direct"
>commands now accepts only "applet[]" commands.
>
>Conclusion: Get a PC! Sigh. No, really, something is very messed up
>deep in the bowels (AND I MEAN BOWELS) of these systems. Nothing
>whatsoever to do with Jmol, of course, but it's OUR problem because
>it's OUR users who are going to complain. And if there is a way
>around, we should implement it.
>
>What really bothers me is that that page of Tim's runs from a
>javascript: command but not a button. Something is really messed up
>there.
>

not sure what to make of this except that now you have two running instances of 
the applet with the same name.  possibly a conflict?


btw, I can confirm that this issue exists in Tiger pre-release.  so it's not 
going away.  I have not yet tested if using different names for the 
JmolApplet.jar file does anything.

tim
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