Tom, welcome! Be sure to let us know if you are using the application or the applet -- sometimes it makes a difference. The zap command is not necessary -- it's always executed first as part of the load command. But it must have been excuted. Everything looks fine there.
Try adding these first two lines to your script: set debugScript set loglevel 5 Then see if you can find the Java console. This is something you will use a lot. If using the application, it's under "Help"; if using the applet on Windows it's a little icon in the bottom right of the bar with the program icons. Looks like a cup of coffee, I think. Click on that and select "open console" - that's where all the useful messages are. Load your script and check for errors. Bob Thomas Stout wrote: > > Hi All -- > > I am /just /getting started with JMol, so I apologize if this is > blatently obvious, but I've run into a bit of strange behavior with > scripting the applet. Is there something particularly "special" about > the "load" command? I am calling out to a script file to load several > PDB files, but for reasons I don't understand no other command seems > to be executed from the script file. > > For example, if I issue: > script load.script; > > and "load.script" contains: > zap; > load FILES "molecule1.pdb" "molecule2.pdb"; > frame ALL; > center *; > > then, mysteriously, neither the "zap", the "frame" or the "center" > commands are executed, but the coordinates DO get loaded! I find > this really surprising, since I would expect things to be executed in > order (or error-out)..... > > Any clues for the clue-less (me)? > Thanks! > -Tom > > PS - I'm using version 11.4.0 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >It's the best place to buy or sell services for >just about anything Open Source. >http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-users mailing list >Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
