Dear Josh, Thanks for sharing!
It appears to me that you are writing Jmol into a pre-existing HTML division. To unload, you are changing the contents of that division to nothing (an empty character string). This is what I do in my Jmol Tutorial-Authoring Template (JTAT, http://bioinformatics.org/jmol-tutorials), except that I never "unload"; I simply replace one Jmol with another (or multiple Jmols up to 4). There I have found that java memory gradually gets consumed (after many page loads and division loads) in some browsers. The symptom is that the molecule never appears in Jmol. This happens after Jmol's menu About Jmol, memory usage, reports total equal to maximum. I am working to try to discover what exactly causes this problem. Closing the browser (which stops java) and restarting it is the only way I've found to clear java memory. Have you ever seen this java memory problem? Here are a few suggestions for your website: 1. In addition to the controls you already have below the Jmols, a checkbox to synchronize mouse-directed rotations and zooms would be cool. See "sync" in the manual. I use "sync * on" and "sync * off" (* = all Jmols) together with "set syncScript false; set syncMouse true;". 2. Instead of the colored squares, how about eliminating the squares and simply coloring the text of the element names? Some people may click your "buttons" and wonder what they are supposed to do. At first I thought they might make the element disappear, or label it. 3. Style margins would be nice to avoid having your text against the left side of the window. -Eric At 1/29/08, you wrote: >Due to some still unresolved problems with jmol crashing users browsers >(btw, this appears to be a *java* bug), we wanted users to be able to >decide whether to launch jmol. Using javascript we dynamically load and >unload the applet into and from the page without a page reload. Check it >out here to see how it was done: > > >http://erowid.org/psychoactives/chemistry/chemistry_compare_3d.php > > >cheers, > >-j > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-users mailing list >Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ---- Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
