On Monday 02 December 2002 16:53, mth wrote:
> Q: How useful is it to have these items in both places?
Menu items are not persistent between Jmol sessions...
Preferences are.
> Q: Do people frequently switch representations?
Often, i.e. I often switch on/off hydrogen, charges, labels...
I less often switch on/off antialiasing, etc...
Note that User X turns on shading when exporting images, but
does his rotation work/analysis without shading...
> Q: Could we remove some of these items from the menus so that they live
> in the PreferencesDialog only?
I am not sure how Jmol was behaving in the past... but I imagine this design
handy:
1. the preferences are the boot settings... i.e. the values the several
rendering options when Jmol is started...
2. we should define a list of options that the users is likely to change
within one Jmol session. These should have menu items, the others not...
The option values toggled with the menu do not alter the preference settings,
which only indicate the startup values
Not sure if I make myself perfectly clear... but anyway, here is a second try:
1. For labeling, shading, etc, both menu and preferences exist...
The preferences define the boot settings and the initial menu settings...
In the Jmol session itself the menu settings do not change the boot
setting, but change only the current working settings... Changing the
preferences changes the boot settings and the current working settings.
2. antialiasing, etc only occur in the preference dialog and determine both
the boot settings and the current working settings...
Did this help?
Egon
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