On Aug 20, 2006, at 5:13 AM, David Leader wrote: I've never looked at the Jmol console - thought it was for script entry, but perhaps it gives error feedback too),
Hi David,
The Jmol console gives excellent and abundant feedback following the command, set debugscript on
In this mode, Jmol responds to every command in one way or another. Great for debugging long script files.
*The 'java console' was a convenience for pre-OSX Mac users,
So this 'java console' must have been a Mac OS thing... The Java console I am using is provided by Java itself, and is accessed by using a Java preferences panel, where you can tell Java to open up its own console by default when it encounters an applet. The Java preferences interface can be opened by going to Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0/Java Preferences
Which brings to mind this question - does anyone know if there a way to re-set Java's memory to avoid the "Java.lang out of memory error" that results from re-loading a page with an applet many times? because on other platforms error messages are generally directed to 'system.out' which is the generic command line - in Windows it would be the DOS command line, in unix it would be the unix command line. It was built in to Netscape and IE5 (I think) as a place for system.out errors and exceptions to go to, and if you had trouble with an applet you could have a look at it to see what had happened. In OSX there was no longer a need for this and it was dropped, much to the initial puzzlement of many of us who were used to it.
As far as _javascript_ is concerned, there is no mechanism for sending messages to system.out (perhaps for security reasons?) and, as the _javascript_ interpreter is built into the browser, one is reliant on the browser-maker or third parties building debugging consoles. That's why you'll see different error messages for the same _javascript_ error on different browsers.
Yes, and it seems to me that Firefox provides a terrific js console, which usually gives much more specific and helpful error messages than Safari's. But I much prefer Safari's implementation of Jmol, so I only go to FF when I have an inscrutable js error in Safari's js console.
Thanks for all the explaining, always good to supplement my knowledge of how Mac OS works.
Frieda
///////////////////////////////////////////
Frieda Reichsman, PhD Molecules in Motion Interactive Molecular Structures
///////////////////////////////////////////
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Jmol-users mailing list
Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
