Just saw an announcement about the new version of Opera. I have a
beta version. It appears to have the ability to specify helper aps,
unlike anything else, and is supposed to have LiveConnect when complete
... soon they say. I have not had time to try the mime designation
yet. Will this help us?
Phil
J. Philip Bays
Department of Chemistry and Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame IN 46556
I tried it out. I can train Opera 7.50 for Mac (beta) to
launch ChemDraw upon loading a MOL file. I can't train it to
launch Jmol, probably because of the OS X flaw that Henry mentioned
earlier, that the .jar file is regarded as a document, not an
application -- Jar Launcher is the application. Now, if I can
figure out how to convert the .jar file to an application, as Henry
said I could:
Found a mechanism to wrap the Jmol.jar into an application on OS X
(thus converting it to jmol.app ) which CAN be treated as a proper
application. Use /Developer/Applications/Java Tools/Jar Bundler
and indicate the main class as org.openscience.jmol.app.Jmol
Whilst I doubt its worth distributing this on SF, it might be worth
a line or two showing users how to do it for themselves (but they
will have to installer the developer kit, which is free)
Henry, can you give detailed directions for someone who doesn't
know anything about Java, beginning with where I get the developer kit
and how I install it? I would be most grateful. Or, maybe
you post jmol.app for download at SourceForge? I'm not
sure why you said it isn't worth distributing it on SourceForge.
I'm sure I'm not the only one facing this issue.
-- Bob
