OK. I'm working on the patch now.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Michael Evans <[email protected]>wrote:
> Yep, the link below is still the latest. If you can see the radio button
> group of colors, you know you're looking at the newest version. I've also
> just implemented ImageIcon.
>
> http://www.metallacycle.com/play/netmol/tests/popupMenu/popupMenu.html
>
> Cheers, Mike
>
>
> ---
> Michael Evans
> Organic Chemistry Graduate Student, Moore Group
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Michael Evans <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Getting quite close. Buttons (menu items), checkboxes, radio buttons,
>>> and button groups are all working with proper event handling (FYI, event
>>> handling requires jQuery >1.7, which JSmol appears to be using, but just a
>>> heads up for those who might wish to "downgrade" jQuery for some reason.
>>> Hope this is OK).
>>>
>>
>> JSmol is using an adapted (by me) version of jQuery that includes
>> synchronous binary file transfer. Users are strongly discouraged from
>> "downgrading"
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Figuring out when exactly to bind handlers to click and change events
>>> was a little tricky, but I think I've got it down. It happens in the
>>> PopupMenu.addItem and SubMenu.addItem functions, after the HTML of the item
>>> has been added to the page's DOM. I think this is a little different from
>>> the way addItemListener and addActionListener work in Java...but the same
>>> effect is achieved.
>>>
>>> Some questions that remain:
>>>
>>> - What's an ImageIcon? Could I get an example in the current context
>>> menu for Jmol (Java)? Same question for AbstractButton and JComponent. If
>>> my poor memory of Java serves me right, JComponent is a very "low-level"
>>> class in Swing. Once those three are implemented, all the objects you
>>> listed will have JS equivalents, Bob.
>>>
>>
>> The ModelKit menu places an image in each of the three main menu items.
>> It's just an <img> tag in this case.
>>
>>
>>
>>> - Still not seeing how to wire my setup to the
>>> org.awtjs2d.Platform.getMenuPopup function. I dig into Platform.js and all
>>> I see is a line of code that sets the function to null...*Nevermind, I
>>> have an old version of JSmol on my server :-D* Still don't really see
>>> how to actually call that function and use what it returns, though. Can't
>>> find it in the Jmol object or in the applet's instance object.
>>>
>>>
>> I'll do that today.
>>
>> Presuming the link below is the latest....
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>> Cheers, Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, December 21, 2012, Bob Hanson wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the latest? I'd like to test this some tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my stupid iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Michael Evans <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Guess I was feeling lazy when I wrote menuRemoveItem...it's an easy
>>>> fix. The array.splice(indexToStart, numberOfElements) function is perfect
>>>> for it. Now fixed; see the new method below.
>>>>
>>>> menuRemoveItem: function(menu, index) {
>>>> if(index >= 0 && index < menu.items.length)
>>>> menu.items.splice(index, 1);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I see what you mean about the action listener, Bob. Shouldn't be too
>>>> tough to make that happen. Thanks for the debugCode tip; should be easier
>>>> to get a handle on that now as well. Finally, feel free to copy over any or
>>>> all of my code to the "official" JSmol code (probably don't have to tell
>>>> you that... :D).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Mike
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Michael Evans
>>>> Organic Chemistry Graduate Student, Moore Group
>>>> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wow, this is great! Almost there, I think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Michael Evans
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bob et al.,
>>>> Progress has been made on a popup menu for JSmol. I've implemented
>>>> PopupMenu, MenuItem, CheckboxMenuItem, and RadioButtonMenuItem, among other
>>>> things. Check it out:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.metallacycle.com/play/netmol/tests/popupMenu/jmolPopupMenu.js
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK! You are way ahead of me!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The demo is still functional as well:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.metallacycle.com/play/netmol/tests/popupMenu/popupMenu.html
>>>>
>>>> Two things I'm struggling with:
>>>> 1) What's the difference between a ButtonGroup and a set of
>>>> RadioButtonMenuItems?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think it's the same. I think really in JavaScript it's just a set of
>>>> radio buttons with the same name. Be sure to use
>>>>
>>>> applet._id
>>>>
>>>> as a prefix to every name or id so that multiple applets on a page do
>>>> not have the same name or id for anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) Event handling in general. For example, a checkbox menu item doesn't
>>>> "know" its parent, so when it's clicked, it can't run commands on its
>>>> parent applet without bubbling an event up to its parent jmol object
>>>>
>>>>
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