This is an interesting feature, and rather surprising to me. One never ends to marvel at Jmol wonders. Great work, Bob!
And now that I'm sensitive to the topic (having mused around it for my home page in the last few days), this feature would contribute to web accesibility, if the arrow, plus, minus keys could be included (that may be hardly cross-platform maybe): use Jmol without the mouse. An interesting subproject or junior task maybe. Here are my two euro cents (or are they 4?): 1. I do not think that having it active by default is a good idea, at least in blind mode. I'd make it either (a) inactive by default or (b) active by default but with set showKeyStrokes true. I'd rather prefer (a); (b) may be dangerous or confusing to non-aware users. Remember that many users are not expected to know how to use the command language; that's one of the purposes of having an applet, to provide a ready-to-use environment. 2. I agree that a named echo is better than bottom left (e.g. name it "KeyStrokes"). And if put a line above the bottom, there's less chance to obscure an existing echo. A different default color (maybe different font face too, monospaced?) could be helpful. 3. Activating both the feature and the showKeyStrokes should be available from the pop-up menu. If you need to open the console for that, then there is less usefulness in having the commands displayed inside the applet, since you already see them in the console. 4. I agree that if the pop-up menu is blocked, the feature should be blocked too. (For those pages where we really do not want the user to mess around) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
