I'll see if I can set it up so that there is a distinction between

  select none

and

  select somethingNotPresent

in this regard.

Bob


Frieda Reichsman wrote:

>Thanks for that neat lesson in detective work, I will be using the  
>history tricks you demonstrate.
>
>I use a single labels script throughout a set of figures, thinking  
>that selecting something that's not there would not have a negative  
>effect. (There, I was certainly wrong.) But a few if statements in the  
>script, I  imagine, should enable Jmol to avoid those calls that  
>select no atoms.
>
>Frieda
>
>On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Bob Hanson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Frieda,
>>
>>That's what I needed. It's a sneaky script bug. When you see the  
>>default
>>change like that, it means you had the equivalent of a
>>
>> select none
>>
>>which most likely means you selected something that does not exist. So
>>it ACTS like a "select none"
>>
>>In the console on that page, I typed:
>>
>>  set history 0;set history 2000;set historyLevel 3
>>
>>That (a) resets the history, (b) allows a long history listing in  
>>case I
>>need it, and (c) sets Jmol to record history from called scripts of at
>>least two levels deep, not just the command line. Frieda, remember  
>>that
>>one -- you will use it again!
>>
>>Here's what I got for that history:
>>
>># ------fig 1a ------------
>>select 179:A.CA
>>label Hsp90-N
>>set labeloffset 0 -20
>>#color label black
>>#font label 20 sans bold
>>#set labelpointer off
>>
>>#....lots more...
>>
>>select atomno=622 and :Z
>>label Asp93
>>font label 14 sans bold
>>color label magenta
>>set labeloffset 1 0
>>set labelpointer off
>>
>>
>>That's a default setting, because when I type
>>
>>  select atomno=622 and :Z
>>
>>I get
>>
>> 0 atoms selected
>>
>>And from
>>
>>  print {atomno=622}.ident
>>
>>I see
>>
>> [ARG]78:A.C
>>
>>which of course is not chain :Z
>>
>>In connection with that, the Hsp90-N label has a default color and  
>>font,
>>so when you send that script again, it picks up the default settings,
>>which are now set to magenta 14.
>>
>>Mystery solved!
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>    
>>
>>>http://moleculesinmotion.com/3Dfigure_test/figure1.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>Robert M. Hanson
>>Professor of Chemistry
>>St. Olaf College
>>Northfield, MN
>>http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>>
>>
>>If nature does not answer first what we want,
>>it is better to take what answer we get.
>>
>>-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>>
>>
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