Thanks, Rolf. Quite possible about the wheel -- I didn't test this.
swipe -- I probably didn't explain that correctly.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de> wrote:
> >
> > swipe -- with a finger this is a rapid movement that releases as it
> > terminates. With a mouse, it's a LEFT-button action for which the button
> is
> > released BEFORE the motion stops. (Takes some getting used to.) This
> gesture
> > produces a sort of Google-Earth action that starts the model spinning at
> a
> > speed that depends upon the speed of the swipe.
> >
> I wasn't able to start spinning this way. Even separating mouse movement
> and button click by using two hands to ensure continuous movement after
> releasing the button didn't help.
>
> hmm...
> > zoom-slider -- with set allowGestures TRUE, you can now just treat the
> > screen as a touchpad and scroll through zooms just be doing a vertical
> > LEFT-drag within a few percent of the right side of the applet window.
> >
> Principally it might be useful as an alternative. But I think zooming
> should not be mixed with rotation and vice versa. Currently zooming
> starts for example additionally after the mouse leaves the applet at the
> right side. And also rotation starts additionally after the mouse leaves
> the applet at the right side. Or rotation replaces zoom if the mouse
> leaves the "zoom zone" to the left side. (Since there is no visible
> border of the "zoom zone" and since it is very small this happened very
> frequently during my tests.) This makes zooming and rotation rather
> unpredictable and uncontrollable.
>
> right -- I'll see what I can do about that.
> The "zoom zone" is quite narrow in the small test applet. So it is
> difficult to actually hit it with the mouse. It would be helpful if the
> mouse cursor would already change after reaching the zone and not only
> after pressing the mouse button. This might also help novice users to
> find this feature if it is activated.
>
>
I'll make the cursor move and decouple it from rotation.
> On my system the mouse wheel didn't work any more within Jmol. (Although
> it did work in another window with an older Jmol version (11.8.8) opened
> in parallel.) I had sometimes trouble to activate zooming with the mouse
> wheel before, but mainly on Windows and not on Linux. And most of the
> time I could finally get it to work after doing some clicking within the
> applet. ( I don't remember the details right now.) But here I could not
> get it to work.
>
> quite possible -- I didn't test this.
> Test system
> -------------
> OS: OpenSuSE 11.1 (x86_64)
> Java: 1.6.0_15
> Browser: Firefox 3.0.15
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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