Thanks Otis it's basically your #2
I was just playing once again with my old idea od giving the user a hint of "please wait" and also "things are progressing". Today I had a file that takes time to load so the idea came back. My current, regular solution is a Jmol echo "loading..." but when things take long one does not know if it is stalled. So, I tried a progressive change of the echo. It works fine using the timeout command, as long as I do not load a model. > I think the only way you´re going to be able to do this is asynchronously, but load ASYNC appears to be broken on the version I´m using - 14.2.4 about a year old. Mine is 14.3 How do you check if async is working? I had never used it before. Then I went and tried a different thing: overlay JSmol with a "loading notice" in a DIV and then close it using loadStructureCallback. Works nicely but it's not pure JmolScript. It lets me put text + animated spinner, though, which I like, and also check for success/failure in loading and act accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
