It's a bug. The MOVE command does do different things than the MOVETO command; the idea is that for general work MOVETO is more capable, but the effects are definitely different.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de> wrote: > On 08/25/2015 04:28 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > > OK, let's try again, please. I really appreciate all this testing. Rolf, > I > > am especially interested in if this fixes your JenaLib startup problem. > > > The 'move' command doesn't do anything if the time is set to zero, e.g.: > move 180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; > > This used to work in version 11.8.8, which we are still using for the > automatic image generation for the 'JenaLib'. This behaviour might have > been introduced already in version 12.x. At least I remember that we > never upgraded the Jmol version in conjunction with the 'Jena3D Viewer' > because the images created with newer versions were different. And since > upgrading wasn't really necessary until now I never took the time to > really investigate it. > > Even if the time is set to 0.1 seconds, the images from version 11.8.8 > and 14.3.16_2015.08.25 (both with 'set perspectivemodel 11;') don't look > identical. > > The scripting documentation says that 'move' has been superseded by > 'moveto', but I couldn't figure out how to achieve relative rotations > (like 'move' does them) with 'moveto'. I could only get absolute > rotations with it. > Even if it might be possible, the 'move' command seems to be much less > complicated to use for 'relative' movements than 'moveto'. So I would > rather not regard it as "superseded" by it. > > 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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