Re: [Jmol-users] Try / catch not working for file loading

2016-03-01 Thread Rolf Huehne
On 03/01/2016 03:54 PM, Robert Hanson wrote: > It's harder than you think. There are several other messages that can come > up besides 404 that would signify a file read failure [ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes] > Yes I know. I rather thought to use the very few success

Re: [Jmol-users] Try / catch not working for file loading

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Hanson
It's harder than you think. There are several other messages that can come up besides 404 that would signify a file read failure [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes] try/catch is primarily for *Jmol scripting errors. *Just like try/catch in JavaScript is for JavaScript

Re: [Jmol-users] Try / catch not working for file loading

2016-02-29 Thread Rolf Huehne
Am 29.02.16 um 23:10 schrieb Robert Hanson: > I believe that is the correct behavior. It's just that in the case of > the JavaScript version of the applet you get an HTML error message, and > in Java you get a Java error message. Your code is just printing that > error message (fileData). > > But

Re: [Jmol-users] Try / catch not working for file loading

2016-02-29 Thread Robert Hanson
I believe that is the correct behavior. It's just that in the case of the JavaScript version of the applet you get an HTML error message, and in Java you get a Java error message. Your code is just printing that error message (fileData). But I see. you were expecting load("") to throw an

[Jmol-users] Try / catch not working for file loading

2016-02-29 Thread Rolf Huehne
Hi Bob, 'try / catch' doesn't seem to work in Jmol 14.4.3_2016.02.17 (application and applet at http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/jsmol.htm) if it is used to check loading a text file using the 'load' function. Example code function loadTest(fileName) { var fileData =