On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Greeves, Nick <ngree...@liverpool.ac.uk>wrote:
> Hi Bob et al,
> Swipe works on Mac 10.6.2 Safari and Firefox. It took a bit of getting used
> to though.
> Zoom-slider I like because mouse scroll does not work on Safari (yet, the
> next Java update will fix this). A possible user tip is to start clicking
> just inside the Jmol applet and then drag down across the border to avoid
> turning into a rotation if you err too far from the side.
>
> I'll fix that.
> It sounds as if you need a new Mac laptop Bob, the touch trackpad is ever
> so clever! I think you may be able to get these for Desktops soon.
>
Ah, I have one, but I'm using the Windows side....;)
> Pinch would be even better than zoom-slider for a real touch screen
> (Tablet).
>
>
That's next. First I have to get a multi touch computer.
> How about a two-finder drag/swipe to the right to run an animated sequence?
> Like flipping through photos on an iPhone.
>
great!
> All the best
>
> Nick
>
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> On 18 Nov 2009, at 13:13, <jmol-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:49:40 -0600
> From: Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu>
> Subject: [Jmol-users] feedback appreciated
> To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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> Jmol users,
>
> Jmol 11.9.9 will have a couple of mouse-related new features. One that
> should be useful is
>
> show mouse
>
> or
>
> show mouse [keyword]
>
> such as
>
> show mouse move
>
> or
>
> show mouse pick
>
> These return information about what the mouse buttons do.
>
> In addition, because underneath the surface Jmol is now completely changed
> in how it handles mouse events, in the future you will be able to assign
> button/key combinations to all sorts of actions. Two new actions that can
> be
> assigned using
>
> set allowGestures
>
> are related to giving Jmol a "multi-touch" feel -- on certain machines
> being
> able to use two or more fingers to direct the application. These include:
>
> swipe -- with a finger this is a rapid movement that releases as it
> terminates. With a mouse, it's a LEFT-button action for which the button is
> released BEFORE the motion stops. (Takes some getting used to.) This
> gesture
> produces a sort of Google-Earth action that starts the model spinning at a
> speed that depends upon the speed of the swipe.
>
> zoom-slider -- with set allowGestures TRUE, you can now just treat the
> screen as a touchpad and scroll through zooms just be doing a vertical
> LEFT-drag within a few percent of the right side of the applet window.
>
> Give these a try at
> http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/new.htm and tell me what
> you think. More ideas for cool gestures? (I'm working on "pinch" and
> "stretch" to zoom out/in, like an iPod, but that requires a multi-touch
> screen, which I don't have yet.)
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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