It's a Java bug/feature. Nothing at all we can do about it. Jmol has no
control over that level of detail in the menuing system.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ted Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have embedded a Jmol applet in one of my own web pages using the
> javascript interface provided in Jmol.js.
>
> With a structure loaded into the applet, there is a hot spot in the lower
> right corner of the applet.
> Clicking on it displays a drop down menu, usually with an entry called
> main menu and one or more other
> menus that correspond to my most recent use of the menu.
>
> Clicking on menu brings up the entire menu structure.
> The last item is "About...". Hovering over that item
> causes what I call a "flyout" menu to appear, generally
> to the right of the drop down menu, consisting of three
> sub menu entries. If I am lucky, it appears adjacent to the
> "About..." menu entry and I can move my mouse directly from
> the About menu entry to one of the sub menu entries.
>
> But often, the flyout is far above the about menu entry
> and the mouse has to either leave the menu structure
> or it has to cross over other menu entries within the
> menu structure on the way to the flyout. Either of
> those actions causes the flyout to disappear. If I
> cross a different menu entry, the sub menu that corresponds
> to it often flys out instead of the flyout that I want.
>
> Where the flyout is positioned seems to be random but I think
> that it is not. For example, If I initially hover over about, the position
> of the flyout appears to be random. But if I move the mouse
> up one menu item to language (large language sub menu appears,
> always in correct place) then back down to about, the about flyout
> is consistantly positioned adjacent to the surfaces menu although
> it does vary a little bit. It might be even accross the top or
> the flyout may be a row higher than the surfaces menu, but they
> are always touching. If I start at about, move up two menu
> items to "Computation", then come back down to "About" one of
> two things can happen. If I come down at a normal speed, (
> slow enough to let mouse over fire on "language") then the
> flyout appears opposite "surfaces" as before. But if I come down
> very fast (fast enough to prevent mouseover event from firing on
> "languages"?) then the about flyout appears where it should, adjacent to
> the "about" menu item.
>
> Typical suite of questions apply here:
> 1) Has anyone else seen this?
> 2) Can others reproduce this?
> 3) Is it a configuration or code issue on my part?
> 4) If not is it a bug or a feature?
> 5) Is there anyway I can effectively search for
> previoulsly reported issues so I don't waste
> list members time on questions that have already
> been asked and answered? I looked at source forge
> and mailman and found nothing. I tried a google
> search restricted to the jmol-users forum at
> source forge-net. I got a list of posts but
> none that addressed this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance for all direction.
> Ted
>
>
>
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