I just checked this out. I sporadically observed this behavior of zooming
instead of rotating. It didn't always happen even after loading several
structures. It would happen once or twice then not happen. It was rather
random in my case. Each time it happened, a couple of taps on my trackpad
would usually get it out of this zooming mode and return it to the normal
rotating. A few times it would switch into translating mode but again would
eventually get to rotating after tapping a few times on the trackpad. It seems
somehow the applet is confusing a single tap and drag for a two finger tap and
drag or some other dragging with a key down.
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Jeff Hansen
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
DePauw University
602 S. College Ave.
Greencastle, IN 46135
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On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Philip Bays wrote:
> Bob:
>
> I like this a lot!!
>
> However --- (there is always a however, isn't there.) On a Mac, using
> Safari, I observe something that I think was discussed earlier but I do not
> remember if there was a resolution.
>
> The first two or three structures I request work fine. However, at some
> point, the rotate function becomes zoom. That is, left-mouse drag zooms
> instead of rotates. If I open the contextual menu, scroll down but do not
> select anything, the problem is remedied for that structure, but it recurs
> on loading the next.
>
> I have observed this on an iMac with a Mac mouse, and on a MacPro laptop. I
> am running the latest vs. of the OS (10.6.4) and using your web link (below).
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
>
>> What do you think of starting a Wiki page "Jmol in the Classroom" -- or
>> perhaps, to be consistent, "Classrooms Using Jmol"
>>
>> People could enter "teachable moments" when they used Jmol in an effective
>> way during class.
>>
>> Here's a possible first installment:
>>
>> Today, Day 5 of first-semester organic chemistry -- Textbook Smith, 3rd Ed.
>> -- Chapter 3 -- Topic "Functional Groups"
>>
>> I thought it would be fun to get students to suggest examples, so I fired up
>>
>> http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-12/simple.htm
>>
>> (This page, as of this morning, has a new button on the right that uses the
>> PROMPT command in Jmol 12 and taps into the NIH Cactus service using LOAD
>> $chemicalName. Look in the page source for that very simple code.)
>>
>> I just clicked on "Load MOL by NAME" and then asked them to give me a name
>> of something they knew, like a medication.
>>
>> We ended up looking at diphenylhydramine, morphine, THC, heroin,
>> hydrocodone, adderall, and tetracycline, writing out several of these
>> structures on the board based on the 3D models. This lead to discussions of
>> reactivity, hints about the connections between names (even these trade
>> names) and functional groups, a little about the blood/brain barrier issue,
>> hints about synthesis (it's amazing how simple many of these drugs are).
>>
>> Great fun.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> --
>> Robert M. Hanson
>> Professor of Chemistry
>> St. Olaf College
>> 1520 St. Olaf Ave.
>> Northfield, MN 55057
>> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>> phone: 507-786-3107
>>
>>
>> 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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