Hi Bob,

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * it took me a few minutes to realize how to unset the 'delete atom' mode
>
> Suggestions? My original plan was to have icons with the selections, so that
> the top icon would change to reflect what was selected in the subdirectory.

My first intuition was to click the item again... since it was a
checkbox, that's what I would have expected... it could default to the
'C' mode again... or whatever the default action for the 'Model Kit'
is...

>> * it would be nice if the FF energy would be displayed somewhere
>
> I experimented with that a bit, but because UFF is not reliable in terms of
> energy, I thought it unwise to go there.

Ah, but then again, you are using it for minimization... anyway, I was
using it to compare to possible geometries... and UFF energies were
pretty close, which was enough for me...

>> * the edit modes are quite hidden now, in the popup menu, so that
>> changing drawing mode takes quick a few clicks
>
> true. Suggestions?

Toolbar?

>> * changing an atom symbol of an existing atom could benefit from
>> keyboard shortcut. I suggest that when an atom is highlighted (red
>> circle), clicking 'C' changes to carbon, etc.
>>
> certainly sounds reasonable. What about Br? Cl? Can't buffer the atoms
> because the idea is that it automatically adjusts H atoms. Or shouldn't it
> do that?

I think Rich Apodaca's 2D editor has the right approach... it keeps a
time out, and if "b .. r" is typed within a certain time limit, it is
Br...

>> But the biggest issue by far was that I could not export the generator
>> model in anything but .spt... :) I can easily extract the MDL molfile
>> content from that, and realize Bioclipse should really support Jmol
>> .spt files :)
>
> I'm saving MOL files from that third "..." menu. Does that not work for you?

Oh, had not seen that :(

Well, that's actually another point... it seems pretty remote from the
actual GUI (or at least in the application)... I was really expecting
a File -> Save As ...

Egon

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