Not sure what you mean by "button response in 2 seconds" -- it's a button.
It responds immediately. I'll get a version up with the 0.5-second delay
and see what you think. It's not supposed to be fancy. Just a small
convenience and preferably not a nuisance.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Anthony Ciani <[email protected]>wrote:

> A variable would be best if you want to allow quick animation using the
> toolbar.
>
>
>
> Perhaps between the Frame Previous and Frame Next buttons, place a 4-digit
> wide input or pull down box to specify delays between 0 (default) and
> 9999-ms, or maybe 0 to 5000 in steps of 50?
>
>
>
> Although the proposed press-and-hold (I would go for 1 second delay)
> change is better than the current click-and-race, I would prefer one click
> = one frame, until you can make it user selectable.  I use Jmol across a
> large number of platforms and network types, often to check on the progress
> of very large MD simulations.  Over some networks, even a timeout of 10.0
> sec could skip frames (although button response is usually under two
> seconds).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Robert Hanson [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 08, 2014 12:23 AM
>
> It's a 100-ms repeating timeout.
>
>     @Override
>     public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
>       vwr.evalStringQuiet(script);
>       vwr.evalStringQuiet("timeout '__animBtn' -100 \"" + script + "\"");
>     }
>
>     @Override
>     public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
>       vwr.evalStringQuiet("timeout '__animBtn' OFF");
>     }
>
> I suppose we could set that to 200 ms or, better, a variable.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Anthony Ciani <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Jmol Users,
>
>
>
> The Frame Next and Frame Previous buttons seem to have become sticky.
> They continually advance (or recede) frames until the mouse button is
> released or the mouse is moved off of the icon.  Behavior is seen on
> Windows, Linux (remote and local Xserv), different Java versions.
>
>
>
> I could see this being a desirable feature, for example, if someone wanted
> an easy way to animate frames, but frames are updated so rapidly that a
> single mouse tap could do 4 or 5 frames.  On a slow display interface (e.g.
> X11 over a local network), dozens of frames might be updated, slowly, after
> a single click.  The situation is almost unbearable if used over a slow
> network.  If "Animate Forward" and "Animate Backward" buttons are desired,
> they should be separate on the menu bar, along with a Frame Rate box.
>
>
>
> This "feature" seems to have been present since 13.0.1.  I did some
> searching and found a couple messages about it, but nothing happened.  The
> frame command inside the console works as expected.  It is only the buttons
> that have become sticky.
>
>
>
>
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