I believe it might be possible to add scripts to a PNGJ file. I have to think about that. What you would do would be to simply replace/modify JmolManifest.txt, which is the actual script run when the file is loaded, and then add that script as well.
But I think there is a bug there. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de> wrote: > On 08/20/2015 05:08 AM, Robert Hanson wrote: > > It is not possible to save user-defined functions in the state. This is > > because they are (in my opinion) not aspects of the state. So you will > need > > to add those later as a separate spt file. > > > But why should one provide the power to customize/enhance Jmol but don't > enable to save/restore these adjustments together with a view? > > I understand that it would not be a good idea to save just every > user-defined variable and function together with the state. Then there > could accumulate a lot of garbage with each round of save/restore and > the state file could get bigger and bigger. > > Q: What about a system similar to the custom startup script file of the > application in the users '.jmol' folder? > (By the way, I tried to find documentation on it but couldn't find any.) > > There might be a variable, for example called 'customStateScript'. If it > would not be empty then the content would be written into a file > 'customState.spt' and added to the files stored within a PNGJ file. And > the script file would be loaded as the last step of restoring the state > when a PNGJ file is loaded. > > Having a single image file that can either be used to display a static > view in any graphics program or to recreate the interactive view within > Jmol is the beauty of the PNGJ concept. This would be broken by the need > for an external second script file. > And in a browser context it is already inconvenient to save a single > file in JSmol with two dialog windows popping up. I wouldn't want to > have a user do this twice for each save action. > > When I developed the Jena3D viewer (http://jena3d.fli-leibniz.de) about > ten years ago, Jmol's scripting language was much less capable than > today. Most of the stuff that is done there on the server with Perl and > in the browser with JavaScript could now be done within Jmol with Jmol > scripting. And if the system doing this could be stored within a PNGJ > file along with the view it could make (almost) the whole functionality > available within any compatible version of the Jmol applet or > application running anywhere. I think it would be a huge improvement if > site developers could implement something like that. > > Regards, > Rolf > -- > > Rolf Huehne > Postdoc > > Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) > Beutenbergstrasse 11 > 07745 Jena, Germany > > Phone: +49 3641 65 6205 > Fax: +49 3641 65 6210 > E-Mail: rhue...@fli-leibniz.de > Website: http://www.fli-leibniz.de > > Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph > Head of Administration: Dr. Daniele Barthel > Chairman of Board of Trustees: Dennys Klein > > VAT No: DE 153 925 464 > Register of Associations: No. 230296, Amtsgericht Jena > Tax Number: 162/141/08228 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > -- Robert M. Hanson Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry 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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