Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Hanson
PNGJ is not designed to save any settings other than those that are specifically necessary to define a state. So no user variables, no overall preferences. You could save a message in the state by using the message command, I suppose, but that would have to be a message that was visible to the

Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-02-05 Thread Charles Harrison Shubert
Hi Bob, I guess I would have been surprised if a backdoor existed. Thanks for thinking about this. —Chuck On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Robert Hanson hans...@stolaf.edumailto:hans...@stolaf.edu wrote: PNGJ is not designed to save any settings other than those that are specifically necessary

Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-02-03 Thread Charles Harrison Shubert
Hi Bob and Paul, Thanks for your replies (both are very helpful). The PNGJ functionality looks great! Can I save my app’s private UI state (preferences, etc) as a variable or static function in JSmol so that PNGJ will write it to the .png file? (I can imagine the user saving the PNGJ .png file

Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Rose
Hi, I am also quite interested in that. Can I save my app’s private UI state (preferences, etc) as a variable or static function in JSmol so that PNGJ will write it to the .png file? As far as I know user defined variables or functions (from jmolscript) are not saved within the Jmol state.

Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-02-01 Thread Robert Hanson
very best way is to have the user save a PNGJ file -- write PNGJ ?.png and then have them drag-drop it back into Jmol when they want to restore it. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Paul Pillot paul.pil...@ac-orleans-tours.fr wrote: Hi Chuck, have you tried get property stateInfo ? It

[Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-01-31 Thread Charles Harrison Shubert
Hi, When my users open my app, I'd like for JSmol to be in the same state that they left it in. My users can generate quite a bit of JSmol script. Currently, I'm using the browser's localStorage to store app state in a JSON object. What would be the preferred way to extract JSmol state

Re: [Jmol-users] Question: What is the preferred way to save JSmol state and orientation?

2014-01-31 Thread Paul Pillot
Hi Chuck, have you tried « get property stateInfo » ? It should restore everything including orientation, zoom, etc… Paul Le 31 janv. 2014 à 16:32, Charles Harrison Shubert cshub...@mit.edu a écrit : Hi, When my users open my app, I'd like for JSmol to be in the same state that they left