Re: [Cdk-devel] Re: using jmol as a javax.swing.JPanel

[Peter Murray-R. <pm...@ca...>]

At 20:26 09/06/2003 +0200, E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote:
>On Monday 09 June 2003 19:11, Miguel wrote:
> > > How do I use JMol from a java application?
> >
> > This is going to be the beginning of a long conversation :)
> >
> > > I am developing an application which requires a rendering window for
> > > displaying small molecules and isosurfaces. Rather than build
> > > everything from scratch I would like to use JMol as a component of the
> > > application I am building.
> > >
> > > Has anyone done such a thing?
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, noone has done such a thing.
>
>Peter MR has done that in Jumbo... he uses Jmol for display of 3D structures
>from within the Jumbo software...

It was fairly straightforward - the method was to pass a CML string to the 
CMLReader in Jmol.

It's fairly one-way - Jmol can be launched but cannot communicate back to 
JUMBO. The main area that needs to be explored is the event model. Then all 
these tools - Jmol, JCP, CDK etc can communicate

>Is opens up a separate Jmol window
>though...

Doesn't have to - I originally hacked it as a JPanel, but I like seeing the 
molecules large :-). I have wondered whether JEdit could be a useful 
infrastructure for a graphical tool as it already has window docking, etc.

Best

P.