OH, ok. You mean like as in JmolApplet.js. Sure.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Gusts Kaksis <gusts.kak...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Comments bellow...
>
>
>
> My new idea is to create an applet wrapper class, that gets created
>> once the applet becomes ready. It will be thrown around in all the
>> events/callbacks as the first argument. And it will export applet's methods
>> or store something in cache if applet (for some unknown reason) would not
>> be available. jQuery-Jmol plugin would be used only to initialize DOM node
>> of Jmol applet and update some basic things, like dimensions, visibility of
>> the applet, also destroying it and restoring placeholder to it's initial
>> state (this option kind of complies with jQuery UI widget guidelines). I'm
>> targetting this:
>>
>> Initialization:
>> $('#jmol').jmol({... options ...});
>> Update options:
>> $('#jmol').jmol({... options ...});
>> Update single option:
>> $('#jmol').jmol('option', 'width', 200);
>>
>> Some jQuery-Jmol internal commands:
>> $('#jmol').jmol('hide'); // Hide applet - set it to 2x2 px
>> $('#jmol').jmol('show'); // Restore to original dimensions (from options)
>> $('#jmol').jmol('destroy'); // Remove Jmol from DOM and destroy every
>> reference
>> $('#jmol').jmol('bind', 'pick', myPickListener); // This would be an
>> event binding wrapper -
>> $('#jmol').jmol('unbind', 'pick', myPickListener); // This would be an
>> unbind wrapper -
>>
>> Binding wrapper would do the trick (although still, not quite jQuery-way)
>> - it would set up an appropriate callback in Jmol and then bind an event
>> listener to itself, so that callback listener could trigger an event. And
>> when all the listeners are removed, callback should also be freed, so I'll
>> send "set [callback] NONE". Event listeners should always receive my
>> wrapper object (which wraps a single instance of an applet) and other
>> parameters sent to callback (except for the ID attirbute). For example a
>> hoverCallback would be translated into an event, that would receive these
>> arguments:
>>
>> function myHoverListener (jmol, label, index){
>> // Now you can just do some scripting
>> jmol.script('... some script source ...');
>> }
>>
>> Methods, that I currently have in my Jmol wrapper, are:
>> getProperty - underneath it would use getPropertyAsJSON and parse the
>> JSON string prior returning a result.
>> getId - an ID attribute value of Jmol applet
>> script - same as in applet
>> scriptNoWait - same
>> scriptCheck - same
>> scriptWait - same
>> scriptWaitOutput - same
>> And, if I understood you correctly - other methods should not be made
>> public for JavaScript developers, these are either deprecated or for Jmol
>> intercommunication, right?
>>
>> So, this is what I'm currently playing around with.
>>
>
> Not sure what you are aiming at there. Jmol already has an applet wrapper,
> right? Are you saying this wrapper would not extend Applet? In Jmol right
> now the AppleWrapper class is an extension of Applet, so it, like any
> applet, must become fully initialized before it can ever be called. The
> Viewer class is what is being used for the display, but it is not the
> "applet" itself. (It is accessed by the wrapped applet using the JmolViewer
> interface.)
>
> By applet wrapper, I mean a JavaScript class that holds an applet's
> reference object (received by appletReadyCallback) and it exports some
> methods for developers to use. Also as it's written with prototyping, it
> could be extended with all the bells and whistles of Jmol.Controls.js
> functionality
>
>
> The applet interface is
>
> public interface JmolAppletInterface extends JmolScriptInterface {
>
> public String getPropertyAsString(String infoType);
> public String getPropertyAsString(String infoType, String paramInfo);
> public String getPropertyAsJSON(String infoType);
> public String getPropertyAsJSON(String infoType, String paramInfo);
> public Object getProperty(String infoType);
> public Object getProperty(String infoType, String paramInfo);
> public String loadInlineString(String strModel, String script, boolean
> isAppend);
> public String loadInlineArray(String[] strModels, String script, boolean
> isAppend);
> public String loadNodeId(String nodeId);
> public String loadDOMNode(JSObject DOMNode);
>
> }
>
> with
>
> public interface JmolScriptInterface extends JmolSyncInterface {
>
> public Object setStereoGraphics(boolean isStereo);
> public void script(String script);
> public String scriptCheck(String script);
> public String scriptWait(String script);
> public String scriptWaitOutput(String script);
> public String scriptWait(String script, String statusParams);
> public String scriptNoWait(String script);
>
> }
>
> and
>
> public interface JmolSyncInterface {
>
> public abstract void syncScript(String script);
> public abstract void register(String id, JmolSyncInterface jsi);
> public Object getProperty(String key);
>
> }
>
> This one I followed through in SVN, it's all clear.
>
> OK, so now I've a little bit clearer view over Jmol's ins and outs. Thanks!
>
> --
> Gusts Kaksis
>
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