Matt, no problem. You have the right idea, now just animate it yourself.
For sure, do
load files "xxxx" "yyyy"
frame 0.0;display 1.1,2.1
Now create the animation loop yourself. You could have a problem
incrementing floating point numbers, so I would recommend instead:
set echo echoBegin [50 50]
echo [GO]
set echo echoBegin script "!quit;doAnimate"
background echo yellow
set echo echoQuit [120 50]
echo [QUIT]
set echo echoQuit script "!quit"
background echo yellow
set debugscript
function doAnimate()
var nFrames = {*}.model.max
for (var i = 1; i < nFrames; i = i + 1)
script inline "display 1." + i + ", 2." + i
delay 0.10
refresh
end for
end function
When that "quit" button is pressed, the animation will stop. You can
have any sort of buttons -- (now images if you want!) -- just make sure
that you have the ! there at the beginning. That tells Jmol to interrupt
the currently running script and process the command.
I bet you can build a nice animator using scripts and such right within
the applet window now, with no JavaScript. Give it a try.
Bob
Matthew Zwier wrote:
>Dear Eric,
>
>Thanks for your quick, thoughtful reply. Sorry for the ambiguity. I
>meant one copy of Jmol; two datasets displayed side-by-side in a
>single Jmol. Or rather, two datasets superimposed in the display.
>
>My data is in multi-frame XYZ files. Each file is of the same
>molecule, moving slightly differently through time. Frame number N in
>file 1 occurs at the same time in the simulation as frame N in file 2.
> I'd like to see the same frame number from more than one file at
>once, to compare how the trajectories are evolving in time.
>
>Displaying two models using
> load traj1.xyz
> load append traj2b.xyz
> frame all
> display 1.169,2.169
>gives the single-point version of what I'm looking for. I'd like to
>animate that.
>
>My current impression is that when Jmol animates multiple files, it
>goes like this (excluding the effect of "frame range ..." commands):
>for each file:
> for each frame in file:
> display frame
>
>In contrast, I'd like the following (assume the same number of frames
>in each file):
>for each frame number (call it nframe):
> display file1.nframe, file2.nframe, file3.nframe ...
>
>Attached are three PNG files showing what I'm after. For the curious,
>the simulation is of the photodissociation of ethane. Red is from the
>first file and blue from the second. The molecular fragments begin in
>coincident locations but begin to drift apart, as each file records
>motion driven by different forces (specifically, different electronic
>states).
>
>If the attachments don't make it through the mailing list, they are
>also available at
>http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mzwier2/frame169.png
>http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mzwier2/frame269.png
>http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mzwier2/frame498.png
>
>Hope that helps clear things up!
>
>Matt Z
>
>On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Eric Martz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Dear Matthew,
>>
>>Please clarify what you mean by "in parallel".
>>
>>Do you mean two Jmol's side by side?
>>Do you mean two datasets displayed side by side in a single Jmol?
>>
>>Is it important that the two animations run in frame-by-frame synchrony?
>>
>>Do you want to be able to rotate each animation independently of the
>>other? Or in (aligned) synchrony?
>>
>>If not too much trouble, a snapshot illustrating the layout you
>>envision might help.
>>
>>-Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
--
Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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