That said, think about your overall information model. The most efficient
use of Jmol is via calculations in the client using JavaScript or even just
JmolScript.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can also just use the applet itself to pass data back to the server.
> Just use the load() function in Jmol script. No need for AJAX with that.
> Remember, AJAX was designed with JavaScript in mind, not Java. Java already
> has the capability to communicate with your server.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Oliver Stueker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yingjie,
>>
>> keep in mind that the Jmol Applet is executed inside the Browser of
>> the user whereas your python script runs on the webserver.
>> So you'll need to communicate data from the client back to the server.
>>
>> The first step would be passing the data that you need from the
>> Java-Applet into the JavaScript (inside the Browser).
>> This can be done by e.g. PickCallbacks (or similar) or you can
>> probably assign the content of the state-file to a JavaScript variable
>> (as a string).
>>
>> The second step would be to pass that information back to the webserver.
>> With JavaScript you can assign the data you want to transfer to a
>> <input type="hidden"> inside a <form ... method="post"> which will
>> send the data to the server when the form is submitted. If using a
>> form is too Web 1.0 for you, I'm sure you can also use an AJAX
>> framework to send the data to the server.
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 15:47, Yingjie Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Jmol users,
>> > I am developing a web server with Jmol Applet (Jmol version 12.0.22). I
>> need
>> > the user to select a set of atoms by, say, coloring them red. When the
>> user
>> > is done selecting and is ready to move on to the next page, I would like
>> my
>> > Python script to know which atoms are selected.
>> > I think this could be done by saving the Jmol display to a file, using
>> > "write STATE filename.spt". This works perfectly in the Jmol program
>> > itself, but I couldn't get it to work in Jmol Applet. In Jmol Applet,
>> there
>> > is no error message, but no file is written, and the content of the
>> state
>> > file is printed to the Console.
>> > Does anyone know what I am missing here?
>> > Thank you.
>> > Yingjie
>>
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