The mouse problem should be fixed now. You can find a working version at
http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-12/Jmol.zip
Bob
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Eric Martz <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, I reported a similar problem on Aug 25 in the thread "Mouse
> zooms, should rotate, SAFARI ONLY". The test URL I gave then is no
> longer up, but the same behavior is seen in the latest public release
> with Jmol 12.0.12 at
>
>
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/jmol-tutorials/jtat/jtatdemo/ch_view1/chapter.htm
>
> I am not using X11. I am using Mac OS 10.5.8 with apple java 1.5.0_24.
>
> I still do NOT see this problem in Firefox 3.6.9 on Mac OS X. So for
> me it occurs only in Safari 5.0.1.
>
> I do NOT see this problem in Firefox 3.6.9 on Windows XP, nor in
> Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP.
>
> Here is my original message, updated:
>
> ------------------------------------------
> I have been seeing this (annoying) bug for many months, but have
> never found a reproducible demonstration. Now I think I have one,
> albeit a complicated one.
>
> My testing indicates that this anomaly occurs in Safari (Mac OS X)
> but not Firefox (Mac OS X, Windows). Therefore presumably it is NOT A
> BUG IN JMOL.
>
> Go to
>
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/jmol-tutorials/jtat/jtatdemo/ch_view1/chapter.htm
> (Jmol 12.0.12)
>
> Toggle spinning off by clicking the "Toggle Spinning" button below Jmol.
>
> Notice that dragging in Jmol rotates the molecule, as it should.
>
> Now click on any View button.
>
> The next time you drag near the middle of Jmol, you get zoom, not
> rotation. You can let up the button of your mouse, depress it again
> WITHOUT MOVING IT, and it still zooms, ad infinitum.
>
> As soon as you let up the button, move the mouse with the button up,
> and then drag again, you get rotation.
>
> This is reproducible. Perhaps there is some particular command that
> leaves Jmol in this state, but if so, I have not identified which command.
>
> If, after clicking the view button, and before dragging in Jmol, you
> change the focus from the browser window to Jmol's console, then back
> again (by clicking OUTSIDE of Jmol), the inappropriate zoom does not
> occur. On the other hand, if you click-drag in Jmol first, it zooms.
> -----------------------------------------
>
> -Eric
>
> At 9/9/10, [email protected] wrote:
> >Jmol Application 12.1.10 on MacOSX 10.5.8 with FF 3.6.7 or X11
> >
> >If I'm rotating a molecule in Jmol and switch over to FF or X11 and type
> >text or scroll the page and then click back into Jmol the leftmouse button
> >no longer rotates the molecule but either translates it or zooms it. It
> >appears that Jmol cycles through all three modes (rotation, translate,
> >zoom) as you move back and forth from Jmol to FF.
> >
> >It doesn't happen 100% of the time (unfortunately) but often enough to be
> >very annoying. One that seems to work (fail) most of the time is too click
> >into FF and make a new page then click back into Jmol and drag the mouse
> >(left button).
> >
> >The problem seems to be a FF and X11 one since I haven't been able to get
> >Safari or the other apps I've tested to show the behaviour. But that might
> >just be because of insufficient testing.
> >
> >Rich
> >
> >
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