Isn't it more likely that if a user has a minimum footprint requirement,
they will adhere to TwirlyMol or an alternative rather than desire that
Jmol load later?
Regardless, I like your "slice" idea personally. Better to spend time
developing a staged loading process for Jmol than effectively introduce a
dependency on an external project whose future is uncertain.
There are a few ways you could approach this. One idea is to split core
classes into base and non-base versions, e.g. Viewer has core functionality
moved to a new class BaseViewer which Viewer extends to provide the entire
feature set.
You could then use the Reflection API to reload all Base* classes as their
subtypes at a time of the user's choosing.
Dave
On 20 March 2013 21:50, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
Jmol users,
>
> An idea is being considered to have a very light-weight "starter" model
> for small molecules in the JSmol suite that is not derived from Jmol but is
> instead from some other package. Kind of like what we were doing with
> ChemDoodle, but not having the licensing issues that come with that.
> Java-based classes would not be involved until some later option was chosen
> by the page visitor.
>
> Suggestions? What's around now that is light-weight and doesn't require
> anything special (no WebGL)?
>
> This can be VERY simple. Just balls and sticks, for example. 100-200K max.
> Maybe just a couple of file formats, like MOL and XYZ.
>
> Another possibility would be to slice off the absolute minimum of Jmol to
> just handle balls and sticks. I wonder how many bytes that would require...
>
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Robert M. Hanson
> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
> Chair, Chemistry Department
> St. Olaf College
> Northfield, MN
> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>
>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>
>
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