Andreas Prlic wrote: >I guess all the Evals should go through a common queue ... > >Andreas > >
In fact, provided we can now reliably wait for script execution, the script queue concept seems quite possible and maybe even a solution to a very very old problem. I've written a ScriptManager to handle these, and my preliminary testing indicates that it works. I cannot break the applet (Windows PC) no matter how fast I send it scripts, and every script runs to completion, regardless of how many delays and animations and such are involved. (Previously, scripts interrupted other scripts.) One of the interesting aspects of this is that you (or the user) can give as many commands as quickly as you wish, and they will be processed in due time. There is no absolute need for "scriptWait()". Now, this could be a problem if LOOP commands are used, because there isn't any provision for otherwise stopping a running script. So I've enabled two essentially nonfunctional commands: QUIT and EXIT as follows: QUIT alone or in the middle of a script stops a currently running script at that point QUIT at the beginning of a script stops a currently running script and starts the next one EXIT alone or in the middle of a script stops a currently running script at that point and flushes all unstarted scripts from the script queue. EXIT at the beginning of a script stops the currently running script and flushes all unstarted scripts from the script queue. Since this is a new behavior, I've set it up so that there is a flag: set scriptQueue ON/OFF which is by default OFF -- more like current behavior, I think. (But I'm not sure) So my questions to users are: 1) Does this action of QUIT/EXIT make sense? 2) Do you use LOOP ? 3) Will this cause any serious difficulty? 4) Should the default be "set scriptQueue ON" or "set scriptQueue OFF" ? Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
