Otis,
I think you may have to put stringA into a concatenated expression in:
WebBrowser1.Document.parentWindow.execScript "jmolScript(stringA)"
sometimes these problems are simply getting the right format, but no
luck yet
1) Jmol and Browser communicate freely in JavaScript.
2) VBA, my interest, can be made to write JavaScript text files locally.
3) VBA can also read files locally.
4) Here I'm stuck: If VBA could read/write to my server, then 1, 2,
and 3 could be connected.
1-3 sounds like my current method that Bob set up. The JavaScript
automatically loads local files (which contain the new Jmol commands).
that won't work for you ?
concerning point 4, my VB program constructs a URL and the Browser can
load any valid page.
My database is local, but contains enough information for various
standard websites. for example, the user selects a specific species or
mutant of globin, and I can then display a web page info such as the
sequence source, images, phylogeny, etc.
I have not yet tried to extract data and work on it. If your server
can be accessed by a valid file or URL, then you should be able to load
pages (and therfore info) from it.
Michael
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Otis Rothenberger
Department of Chemistry
Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4160
http://chemagic.org
*From*: "Michael Marden" <michael.mar...@inserm.fr>
*Sent*: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:30 AM
*To*: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject*: Re: [Jmol-users] Continuing Saga of Jmol Talking to Public
Databases
One step back,
I do not see how to send a variable from VB to the applet:
This works:
WebBrowser1.Document.parentWindow.execScript "jmolScript('load
heme.pdb')"
This does not (as variable):
stringA = "load heme.pdb"
WebBrowser1.Document.parentWindow.execScript "jmolScript(stringA)"
Also, I have not yet found a way to "read" information directly.
At present, my only 2-way communication with variables from VB is via
the Html page elements.
As we discussed there could be a problem with the stability of such
code, as the index number might change.But it seems that this would
not be a problem if unique IDs are provided, or if the page set-up is
supplied (not to be changed by the user).
Currently, Jmol can be piloted using a string variable to the command
input line:
WebBrowser1.Document.All("jmolCmd0").Value = "load heme.pdb"
WebBrowser1.Document.All(12).Click
Note: this employs jmolCommandInput; my page shows the text line with
index 11, button with index 12. The page element can be accessed using
an ID or index. Currently the associated button does not have an ID,
but I assume that its index is simply the jmolCmd0 index (=11) plus 1.
Now to retrieve any information from Jmol,some type of OUTPUT page
element is required. If Jmol could output (or echo or return) strings
to a page text element with unique ID, then we would have 2-way
communication.
So, is this "HTML" method feasible?, or should I continue on the
pathway to "Script" ?
Michael
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