> At 7/23/05, Miguel wrote: >>And I am assuming that you are developing/debugging your >>scripts in the Jmol application ... as I always *strongly* recommend. > > Using the application is not very easy for me. > My web pages use JavaScript to generate Jmol scripts. > It is cumbersome to try to copy every script > into the Jmol application, whereas execution > in the Jmol applet is just a few mouse clicks.
OK If the scripts are being generated by JavaScript then that makes sense. If the scripts are simply inline in the HTML pages then you may want to consider splitting them out and putting them in separate script files. In some circumstances that may make the scripts easier to maintain ... and it makes them easily accessible from the Jmol application. For doing development using the Jmol Applet in a web browser I have the following recommendations: 1. use Mozilla 2. open the Java Plug-in console 3. open the Jmol console 4. set debugScript on 5. Give me feedback use Mozilla =========== Mozilla is the best browser for web application development. Mozilla ... not FireFox Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console Tools -> Web Development -> JavaScript Console It is important to see the Java Console ... #2 below Use the JavaScript console. Clean up the JavaScript warnings & error messages that show up in the JavaScript Console. Hit the clear button & reload the page until you don't get any errors/warnings. If your pages do not generate JavaScript errors in Mozilla then they will work with FireFox & IE. FireFox also has the JavaScript console. However, it does not have a way to open the Java Console from the menus. open the Java Plug-in console ============================= It is *very* important that you open the Java Plug-in Console A lot of things get reported there ... most importantly stack dump information if/when Jmol chokes on something. The method to use to open the Java Console depends upon your operating system. Windows ------- Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Java Plug-in Control Panel -> Basic -> Show Java Console -> Apply Linux ----- assuming Java 1.5 is installed on your path: $ ControlPanel Advanced -> Settings -> Java Console -> Show Console OSX --- Applications -> Utilities -> Java -> Java Plug-in Settings -> something-that-looks-like-ShowConsole Use the Clear button each time before you load the page or go to a new page. Leave it open ... do not close it. If it bothers you then minimize it. If you close it then it will not come back until you restart the browser. If you are using Mozilla (like you are supposed to) then you will not have this problem ... you can reopen at any time: Mozilla: Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console open the Jmol Console ===================== You can open the Jmol Console in two ways 1. Jmol Popup -> Console ... -> Open 2. add the 'console' command to your scripts. I suspect that this could be very useful during development and could save a lot of keystrokes. set debugScript on ================== You can issue the script command set debugScript on|off This will show commands as they are executing. The output format is not exactly the same as the script. For example, the atom expressions are printed out in reverse polish notation. At times it may be useful to embed 'set debugScript on' and 'set debugScript off' in your scripts ... to prevent it from spewing out lots of stuff. Give me feedback ================ If you have specific recommendations on things I can do to facilitate the debugging/development cycle please let me know. Miguel ----- Open Source Molecular Visualization www.jmol.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- ----- Open Source Molecular Visualization www.jmol.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
