#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 gutow):
Replying to [comment:61 jason]:
Jason,
Thanks for all the comments. I am still running a time deficit at the
moment. So probably cannot address any of these immediately. Which are
blockers? If I know what to start on I may be able to squeeze a little
time in between reviews and grading this week.
1)I think I know how to fix the issue with clicking links with sleeping
applets.
2) The firefox problem cannot be fixed until the notebook passes
information properly. A number of things work poorly in FF on MacOS
because the twisted server adds some html header information to files that
are not html. I've reported this as a bug long ago. I don't know enough
about the server to fix it easily.
3) Except for putting things in the right click menu most of your
interface requests are doable. How about a button that changes between an
advanced options interface and a minimalist interface, rather than making
them part of the right click menu?
Jonathan
> 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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