#9238: J. Gutow's update to Jmol in the notebook...
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   Reporter:  gutow                             |       Owner:  gutow       
       Type:  enhancement                       |      Status:  needs_review
   Priority:  major                             |   Milestone:  sage-4.6.2  
  Component:  notebook                          |    Keywords:              
     Author:  Jonathan Gutow                    |    Upstream:  N/A         
   Reviewer:  Jason Grout, Karl-Dieter Crisman  |      Merged:              
Work_issues:                                    |  
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Comment(by jason):

 Some usage comments from playing with it again:

   * First, this is awesome!  Thanks for the huge amount of work you've put
 into it.
   * Under the Functions tab, clicking the link to get info from a sleeping
 JMOL gives an error and doesn't retrieve info
   * In firefox 3.6.13, OSX 10.6.6, changing the size of the applet to a
 smaller size seems to not recenter the image, so I end up with a smaller
 window that shows a corner of the object.  Sometimes changing the sizes
 back and forth several times leads to the object disappearing from the
 visible view.
   * (this may be hard)---it would be nice if there was some way for the
 java applet to gauge how much memory was left in the java system, so that
 instead of drawing a hard line of 5 awake applets, the applets could
 determine if they had enough memory to display, and if not, ask for
 another applet to go to sleep.
   * A lot of these next suggestions are for minimizing the interface the
 user has to interact with.  The purpose for this is to avoid confusing
 most users with a huge array of choices and options that they need to
 make.  The idea is to make most of these choices behind a right-click menu
 (if possible) so they are available to advanced users, but are not taking
 up space for most users.
   * When an applet is sleeping, it says "Sleeping...".  Maybe make that
 text instead say "Click to interact" and make it a link that is the same
 link as the "Wake this 3-D view" link is.
   * Is there a way to put the "Click to Sleep this 3-D view" and the "Help
 for Jmol 3-D viewer" in the right-click menu for the applet?
   * Can we make the display sizes and static image to save also links
 inside the jmol applet right-click menu?
   * Is the State box likely to be useful to lots of people?  If it is
 mainly a debug or developer thing, can we make it also a right-click menu
 thing?

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