OK, that makes sense and is easy to do. I'm already using callbacks to make sure Jmol is properly loaded before I do other things. Thanks! Maybe I will have time this weekend. I'll let you know.
Jonathan On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > Ah, hah! Well, that's it then. When you pass a script in the applet > tag, it becomes a parameter of the object/applet tag. Those > parameters do not preserve line endings -- just like HTML. This was > the original reason that Miguel thought it would be difficult to > build a model from a scripted model file when I asked him about that > in my first question to him. Wow, my first interaction with Jmol! > > So the proper way to do this is to make the script a callback that > will notify the page that the applet is now ready for loading, and > then to send that script using jmolScript(). > > Voila! > > Bob > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jonathan Gutow <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Gutow <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Cool. What conference exactly? >> >> http://www.icsti.org/spip.php?rubrique49 >> >> > >> > I did slip that semicolon in somewhere along the way there. So if >> > this is your problem, maybe somehow your JavaScript is stripping >> all >> > the newline characters. Not a good idea. Are you perhaps splitting >> > on \n and forgetting to put that back in? Something's amiss >> > there.... I don't think it's a problem inside Jmol. >> That's an idea. I don't remember doing that, but I only recently >> came >> back to this code after about 4 months off...I'll check. It makes >> some sense because what we actually want to do is store the script as >> a hidden div in the page, which can get saved on the server and thus >> restore user changes across openings of the page. This means that I >> did have some massaging to make it work OK in a div. I think I >> replaced all the \n with <br/>. The idea being that they would then >> be replaced with \n before passing back to the applet. I'm pretty >> sure I didn't strip the \n from the backup string version, but I will >> check. >> >> That'll do it. I'm sure that's it. The save orientation command >> does not check to see how many parameters there are, so that next >> moveto was simply being included on the line of the previous save >> command. I think if you had used > That doesn't appear to be it. I can see all the \n in the string > using firebug. I'll keep poking around, but putting the semicolon > back in fixed the problem. I haven't got time right now, but remind > me where the script is broken into pieces (Tokens?) and I will try > to give it a gander. Maybe another pair of eyes will find what is > going on. > > One clue is that the faulty script string worked fine if I pasted it > into the script console of the applet. The problem only occurred > when the string was passed as the script in a call to > jmolApplet([width,height], scriptStr, AppletID). > > Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow > Chemistry Department [email protected] > UW-Oshkosh Office: > 920-424-1326 > 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 > Oshkosh, WI 54901 > http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access > resources > and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical > server's > connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these > rules translate into the virtual world? > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > > > > -- > Robert M. Hanson > Professor of Chemistry > St. Olaf College > 1520 St. Olaf Ave. > Northfield, MN 55057 > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > phone: 507-786-3107 > > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access > resources > and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical > server's > connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these > rules translate into the virtual world? > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers Dr. Jonathan H. 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