Re: [Jmol-users] JmolSmilesApplet.jar

2010-05-13 Thread Otis Rothenberger
Alas, it's unfortunate that the wheel has to be reinvented, but as one of my favorite authors says, "So it goes." Having said this, I'll mention that I adopted JME as an educational tool years ago for two main reasons: 1) It had the functionality that I needed; 2) It was light weight. With r

Re: [Jmol-users] JmolSmilesApplet.jar

2010-05-13 Thread Philip Bays
On May 13, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Robert Hanson wrote: > Graphically, just a basic interface -- as simple as possible. > Programmatically, as rich as possible. OK. I am looking at the JChemPaint applet. I like the layout of the interface. However, there are things I could do without: Th

Re: [Jmol-users] JmolSmilesApplet.jar

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Hanson
1. Education. I'm definitely interested in something VERY simple -- just JME-type capability plus the option to extend as open-source ideas arise. For me, the audience is education. JME is perfect EXCEPT that it is not open source and never will be. MarvinSketch is beautiful, but it comes at a pric

Re: [Jmol-users] JmolSmilesApplet.jar

2010-05-13 Thread Philip Bays
Boy, you are an eager beaver. And on a sleep cycle much different from mine:-) I would ask several questions about the goals of such a project: 1. What would be the audience? Primarily teaching situations or a more general, even commercial setting? 2. How much of the periodic table do you want

Re: [Jmol-users] [BlueObelisk-SMILES] JmolSmilesApplet.jar

2010-05-13 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi Bob, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Robert Hanson wrote: > Probably what we should do is write a simple open-source version of JME to > provide a frame to JmolSmilesApplet. It's too bad that Peter's work is not > extensible in that regard. Peter, you sure you don't want to do this? But it >