Hello all, We are accumulating a number of OS X issues. Jmol is hugely important to this OS, since MDL has chosen not to support it with Chime.
Some might be FAQs, so please excuse a) I used to build an application from the Jars by dropping Jmol.jar into a program called Jar Bundler. It would then offer a drop down menu to select what it detected as the Main class. Clicking on "create application" would then create what is called an application bundle. double clicking that as with any other application would run Jmol. Starting around Jmol 4 (or maybe 5) Jar Bundler could not longer detect the Main class, and attempts to put it in by hand did not generate any application bundle that would work. Now the ONLY way to run Jmol on OS X is from the command line as java -jar jmol.jar which for students is pretty inconvenient. Can anyone recollect any reason why Jar bundler should now be failing to find the main class? b) We are struggling with http://jmol.sourceforge.net/scripting.html on OS X browsers (IE, Safari. icab). None of the scripts seem to want to run. Turning debug on, we get "only objects may be called as functions" (from icab) Thus in the section "Enter your RasmolChime script" the links below will appear in the box, but pressing execute script again produces the error above. I might add that the molecules do render (in iCab, IE) although Safari has some problems rendering the atoms (but not the bonds). Can you cast light on either of these two? PS We are working hard at converting as much old Chime/Rasmol script stuff as we can to Jmol,. PPS I should know the answer to this, but dont! The jmol.jar applet is about 500K in size. This is a bit too large to routinely ask people to download on "popular" pages where the user might have a modem etc. I think it should be possible to ask the user (or administrator) to place this class in a standard classpath somewhere, and have the system detect this without downloading the 500k applet each time. Have you looked into this? -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
