Bob Hanson wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>But I still think base64 encoding might not be >>necessary and without it this could even work in MSIE. >> >> >> >> >I don't think it can work on MSIE. The key is the data: protocol, which >must require encoding for image data, as the data is binary. If you get >anything to work on MSIE, do let me know. > > I should have followed the wikipedia link on the "data: URI scheme" before writing my mail. From the document at the W3C server that I had read it looked like a more general scheme. But the wikipedia entry states that it is restricted to base64 encoding and that there are size limitations.
The size problem seems to be quite another drawback. I tested the latest applet version with my interface and different applet sizes and on WinXP with Java 1.5 I got sometimes even with a 600x600 image (or at least with 1600x1600) the following error message: uncaught exception: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException On SuSE 9.3 with Java 1.4.2_11 and Firefox 1.5.0.7 there was no problem to view and save a snapshot even with the maximum applet size (2000x2000, as far as I know), But Konqueror 3.4.0 seems to be as restrictive as the browsers on WinXP. You can test this yourself with the following URL: "http://www.fli-leibniz.de/cgi-bin/3d_mapping-snapshot_demo.pl?CODE=2arc&JMOLVERSION=11beta&SIZE=600"; Above the script input line (in the 'Miscellaneous' section) there is a "snapshot" button. If you press it there should appear a snapshot of the current Jmol view below the applet. The size can be changed by replacing the number in "SIZE=600" in the URL (e.g.: SIZE=1600 or SIZE=1200x800). Any PDB code can be selected by replacing the PDB code in "CODE=2arc" in the URL (e.g.: CODE=1deh). (Note: The log window in the viewer doesn't work with the latest applet because I have to adapt the viewer and/or the new Jmol.js for it.) So it looks as if the server based solution cannot be totally avoided, at least for MSIE. Especially because I think that the 'snapshot' function would be very useful for images exceeding the screen size. Therefore I wrote a little CGI script that bounces back what is send to it and installed it (temporarily) on our server. A little Demo is available at the following URL: "http://www.fli-leibniz.de/ImgLibPDB/pages/bounce_demo.html"; How does it work? A "POST " request is send to the server (http:www.fli-leibniz.de/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi) with the following parameters: MIME="image/jpeg" (could be any other MIME type) CODING="base64" (or "none" if it is not base64 encoded) DATA="..." (the "..." represent the image data) If you press the "Bounce JPEG Image" button there should open another window with a small Jmol logo. The data size is currently limited to 4MB. If Jmol would be able to send a "POST" request and the result would be returned to the browser this should theoretically work even with MSIE. <snip> >ok. I think it's kind of neat how you can get a stereo pair with this. >Did you see I added a "stereo" button. I may have gotten my rotations >backward on that. I don't know. > Yes, it looks weird if it is supposed to be wall-eyed stereo. <snip> >Now, the downside is that JmolApplet.jar is getting larger and larger. >At what point are people going to say, "ENOUGH ALREADY!"? This image >generation capability adds about 17KB to the Jar size. Is this an issue? > > > I hope that there are not many users with a low bandwidth internet connection that use (or would like to use) our Jmol viewer. They would already have to wait several minutes for the applet with all versions listed below and I would think that the recent additions are really worth waiting a bit longer. jmol-10.00.33/JmolApplet.jar 698010 jmol-10.00.36/JmolApplet.jar 685498 jmol-10.00.47/JmolApplet.jar 780786 jmol-10.00.48/JmolApplet.jar 788024 jmol-10.00.49/JmolApplet.jar 853475 jmol-10.00.49p/JmolApplet.jar 804436 jmol-10.00.50/JmolApplet.jar 792625 jmol-10.00.51/JmolApplet.jar 793787 jmol-10.00.60/JmolApplet.jar 813270 jmol-10.9.65/JmolApplet.jar 1032705 jmol-10.9.66/JmolApplet.jar 1034234 jmol-10.9.67/JmolApplet.jar 1037503 jmol-10.2.0/JmolApplet.jar 819822 jmol-10.3.1p/JmolApplet.jar 755637 jmol-10.x.46d/JmolApplet.jar 887663 jmol-11beta/JmolApplet.jar 994527 Regards, Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
