I have added a proof of concept for image creation from the Jmol applet at http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/examples-11/new.htm
It's the same page I've been using, but there is a new link just under the applet that you can click to get the image. Note that this all depends upon the user not using Internet Explorer or possibly some other configurations that do not support the data: URI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URL> This modification of Jmol has not been checked in and may not appear in versions of Jmol. I don't think copyright is any issue -- the license is very generous -- but the lack of MSIE support concerns me. To date we've been able to keep this pretty much platform independent. So it has its drawbacks. Right now I am not checking for browsers. I think the primary use would be for developers and web site designers who want to get images directly off their site and who can choose their browser. How it works: 1) I added getProperty image which, in terms of JavaScript is carried out as var image = jmolGetPropertyAsString("image") Now, this returns a base64-encoded jpeg image. What can we do with that? 2) The link on that page reads: <a href="javascript:void(open('getimage.htm','_blank'))">image</a> which, you say, doesn't make any sense, because we are using an anchor to run javascript to open a different file?? 3) The file getimage.htm is simply: <script> var image = opener.jmolGetPropertyAsString("image") document.write('<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,'+image+'">') </script> (a bit sparse, I know, but I'm just testing here) What this does is go BACK to the original page, get the image, and display it. Strangely enough, say you change the model. You don't have to go back to that original "show image" link -- all you do is reload this page, because it will go get the CURRENT image, not the last one. So to make this work you would just have to have that little getimage.htm file in some directory and link to it in this way from your page. Is that cool, or what? 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
