On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>
> Jonathan wrote:
>> Bug fixes and code changes are documented with some more detail in the
>> file jmol.properties that can be found in the source code in the
>> directory src/org/jmol/viewer.
>>
>> We try pretty hard not to change historical behavior unless it is
>> determined to be erroneous, so new versions usually work as drop-in
>> replacements for older versions, unless you are relying on erroneous
>> behavior.  An example I encountered was that I was depending on Jmol
>> loading molecular orbitals and associating them with the wrong
>> molecular structure from a particular data file type.  When that was
>> fixed, I had to rewrite my  web page that used those orbitals.
>
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
>
>
>> There are a number of things I would like to see about the way Jmol
>> shows up in SAGE.  It would be nice to have some buttons next to the
>> window that do things like turn on spinning and allow some zoom
>> facility (ideally smart enough to recalculate if necessary).  These
>> wouldn't be too hard to do, but I don't really understand how (or
>> where) in the notebook code the Jmol stuff is fed to the web browser.
>> After the notebook is separated out, if somebody can give me some
>> direction, I'd be willing to look at the generation of the <div> that
>> contains Jmol.
>
> I tried messing with this briefly, trying to up the memory allocated so
> that I could get more than 11 plots on a screen.  Only having 11 is a
> pretty bad limitation for a calculus 3 worksheet on 3d functions :).

We could try changing how jmol is used in Sage as follows:  when the
user isn't actively using the 3d image, it is replaced by a static
png.  Then there would be at most 1 jmol applet per page.

william

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