Sounds good. Glad I could help. :)
Chris
Ian Thomas wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> I'm not too sure about your suggestion 1 - perhaps a Jmol expert will
> know how to check if Jmol has finished loading the molecule?
>
> However, your suggestion 2 has got me somewhere. I modified my
> javascript so that if 'jmolGetPropertyAsArray("atomInfo", "all")'
> returns null or an empty list, my code uses 'setTimeout()' to call
> itself again in 50 millisecs to try again. I added a function-scope
> static counter variable to remember how many attempts it has made -
> after 10 attempts it gives up and displays an alert to the user (to
> prevent an infinite loop). This seems to work quite well. On average it
> seems to need 2 to 3 attempts at this interval before Jmol is ready to
> give the 'atomInfo' property back. I've never seen it fail after 10
> attempts (half a second) and give up.
>
> I'm not sure how stable/reliable this mechanism will be on different
> browsers/systems, but it does seem to work for me. Thanks! :-)
>
> I'd still be really interested to know if there's a simpler easier way
> to achieve this using standard Jmol scripting though. There must be an
> easier way?!
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Ian
>
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