At 9/3/07, Bob wrote:
>I'm hoping someone will set up
>a "Chime look-alike" menu for us to try.
Horrors -- I hope not! The Chime menu was quite a mess. This was
because a large set of late additions were shoehorned into a single
menu item ("Select") to save coding effort. The result was a very
disorganized menu. For example, changing colors, changing mouse
clicks to measure distances, and creating surfaces and changing their
displays were all under "Select".
The Chime menu started out as the RasMol menu. However, the RasMol
menu never had enough power to be terribly useful, beyond a few
basics. So I wouldn't go there either.
What I think would be useful would be a simplifed Jmol menu for
beginners that omits the more advanced stuff. Perhaps there could be
an item on the menu "Simplified menu" that when checked would use the
simplified menu, and when unchecked would show the full/advanced menu?
What I think might make the menu system enormously more useful would
be some sort of help system built into the menu. For example, what if
mouseover any menu item opened a box with a sentence or short
paragraph of explanation (including grayed out items, and why they're
grayed out). Perhaps these could be brief explanations, with links
that open a new browser window and go to the full explanation? Just a thought.
-Eric
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