Rolf Huehne wrote:
> Thomas Stout wrote:
>> Thanks Angel --
>>
>> Yes, it definitely turned out to be a memory issue.  My inexperience is
>> another!  I was stumped since the Jmol graphic stopped responding, but Jmol
>> itself was still running and "doing stuff" -- I could still enter commands
>> into the console and get appropriate responses.  Now I know that that is a
>> hallmark of Java exceptions, including out-of-memory errors.
>>
>> With regard to "large" windows and the memory issue, I've settled here on
>> creating a pop-up window that is large enough for end-users to have a "big
>> view" but which is fixed in size so that I know that it won't immediately
>> eat up all of the memory.  I've given up the ability for them to re-size,
>> but it seems a reasonable trade-off.
> 
> Instead of providing an automatic resize function you could provide a
> manual resize option using input fields. This way you could easily set a
> maximum size limit by your Javascript code that does the actual resizing.
> 

You wouldn't even need input fields. You could tie for example the
'<body>' tag with the 'onResize' event to a Javascript function that
resizes the applet with an upper limit.

I just did a similar thing (with a lower limit) a few days ago for our
PDB file viewer:

http://www.fli-leibniz.de/cgi-bin/idb_send-rh.pl?CODE=1deh&MIME=html

Regards,
Rolf

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