Re: [Jmol-developers] menu items vs. preferences

2002-12-03 Thread mth
I just checked in some code which makes the menu checkboxes and radiobuttons work properly. In addition, they now are consistent with the settings as set by the preferences dialog box. - the menu checkbox state is updated to reflect the current settings this did not work correctly in the past i

Re: [Jmol-developers] menu items vs. preferences

2002-12-02 Thread mth
> I am not sure how Jmol was behaving in the past... but I imagine this > design handy: > > 1. the preferences are the boot settings... i.e. the values the > several rendering options when Jmol is started... > 2. we should define a list of options that the users is likely to > change within one Jm

Re: [Jmol-developers] menu items vs. preferences

2002-12-02 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Monday 02 December 2002 16:53, mth wrote: > Q: How useful is it to have these items in both places? Menu items are not persistent between Jmol sessions... Preferences are. > Q: Do people frequently switch representations? Often, i.e. I often switch on/off hydrogen, charges, labels... I less o

[Jmol-developers] menu items vs. preferences

2002-12-02 Thread mth
Many configuration settings show up on both the menus and in the Preferences dialog. For example atom style, bond style, label style showAtoms, showBonds, showVectors, showHydrogens I made a serious effort to make the checkbox behavior consistent between the two ... but I failed. With the menus