Just seemed like an opportune time to get that straightened out since it had
such an easy fix.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de> wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 02:48 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> > Rolf, I snuck in one last change for you, since Nico didn't get a chance
> to
> > release this last night:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I always stumble over the drastically changed mouse drag and mouse wheel
> >> sensitivity when I work with newer versions than 11.6.
> >> While rotating I first think that Jmol became really slow. Until I
> >> remember that it is just the reduced (or would it rather be called
> >> increased?) sensitivity.
> >> With mouse wheel zoom it is even more drastically. Very tedious now to
> >> zoom into a protein using the mouse wheel with the new default settings.
> >>
> >>
> > It occurred to me that the wheel zoom setting was a problem specifically
> > with multitouch. So I just made that lower 1.02 value the default ONLY
> for
> > multitouch, with 1.15 (the older value) back to its original. You won't
> have
> > that problem anymore.
> >
> > Mouse drag: Again, it was a multitouch issue. For that, the mouse drag
> > really has to be as it is now -- such that the molecule FOLLOWS the
> mouse,
> > not just that a mouse movement rotates the molecule. But, again, I
> realize
> > that with large applet sizes this becomes a serious issue. So in this
> case I
> > have just now changed it for non-multitouch applications to top out at
> 500
> > pixels for its "screen size" in the calculation. This means that up to
> 500
> > pixels wide, a mouse movement across the entire screen will be 180
> degrees
> > rotation. As the applet size increases beyond that you will see the same
> > rotation for each mouse movement. So, for example for 1000x1000, a mouse
> > movement across the entire screen is 360 degrees, not 180.
> >
> > We can tweak that a bit if it doesn't work for you.
> >
> Bob, I didn't intend to induce a last minute change (although I
> appreciate it). Nobody else reacted when I raised this question a while
> ago on this list after noticing the change. So the new defaults didn't
> seem to bother other users. And for me it was ok after you added the
> options to tweak the settings.
>
> The rotation is ok for me now in a 600x600 pixel applet with the default
> setting of 12.0.1, and also if I go down to 400x400.
> With the mouse wheel I didn't noticed any difference to 12.0.RC28 on my
> system (no multitouch, OpenSuse 11.2, Java 1.6.0_20, Firefox 3.5.11).
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
>
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