I surmise that it is still not possible to make the mouse actions (rotate, zoom at least) in one jmol applet propagate to other specified jmol applets on the same web page, thereby synchronizing their mouse-controlled movements. Again, I'd like to advocate for this.
Chime has mouse synchronization and it is fantastic for comparing two molecules. If you orient the two molecules in alignment at the outset, mouse-controlled-rotations and zooms occur on both molecules. This makes comparisons ever so much easier and better. I'd like to do some 2-molecule comparisons in upcoming Jmol tutorials, but without synchronization, it is much less useful. In Chime, synchronization could be controlled only at embed time (equivalent to <applet> parameters for Jmol). First, one needed "sendmouse=true" and then one needed "target=[chime_name]" for each Chime whose movements are to be controlled by the one containing these embed tags. I have seen pages with six Chimes, where all followed the mouse actions in any one. Amazing to behold! In 2-molecule comparison MolSlides with Chime, I make the bottom Chime follow the top one, but not vice versa. This enables one to set the desired relationship by rotating the bottom one (the top doesn't follow), after which by rotating the top one, the bottom stays synchronized. Thus, it wpuld be useful to be able to control which Jmol's follow which. As was (regrettably) common with Chime, I don't think there were any script commands to control synchronization, but there should have been. For anyone who has Chime installed and working, the 5th slide here demonstrates bottom-following-top but not vice versa: http://tinyurl.com/2fy7ol Chime's documentation on sendmouse: http://www.mdl.com/support/developer/chime/developer_tools/chimeembed.jsp#sendmouse The corresponding section on target is not complete/correct. Thanks, -Eric /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology U Mass, Amherst -- http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz Biochem 3D Education Resources http://MolviZ.org See 3D Molecules, Install Nothing! - http://firstglance.jmol.org Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org Workshops: http://workshops.proteinexplorer.org World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il Atlas of Macromolecules: http://atlas.proteinexplorer.org PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org Molecular Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
