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[Jmol-developers] [ jmol-Feature Requests-1699227 ] support for multiple file loading via app menu
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2007-05-01 17:34:35
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Feature Requests item #1699227, was opened at 2007-04-12 15:31 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by aherraez You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379136&aid=1699227&group_id=23629 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Interface Improvements Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Angel Herraez (aherraez) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: support for multiple file loading via app menu Initial Comment: Now that Jmol can load several files together, it would be interesting to have this functionality built into the application's top menu bar. (Specially so since it is cumbersome to load files from different locations in the hard disk via the console; the open file GUI is much more friendly.) At a minimum, we should have support for "load append". It could be done with a checkbox "add to existing models" in the Open dialog box. Better, also the choice to select several files (from the same folder), if that is possible in the Java dialog box. (Like in Windows at least, using Ctrl+click) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Angel Herraez (aherraez) Date: 2007-05-01 19:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1065324 Originator: YES Certainly, the animation controls in the app are not very capable, but even so for a single multimodel file. To me, the ability to browse the local file system using GUI, and pick up several files from different places is of great use. The animation control can be issued from console, but the multiple loading cannot, unless the app and all the molecule files are together in the same folder --which is not my case--. So, if there is no technical trouble, I vote for adding this capability to the app, even if not backed by full frame control functionality. Thanks for your efforts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bob Hanson (hansonr) Date: 2007-05-01 18:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1082841 Originator: NO I've added the necessary menu item, but I'm not satisfied and am concerned that this is a much bigger deal than one might think. Append creates a new frame, but without the proper controls to access that frame, it appears initially that nothing has happened. To do this properly we would need a better set of animation controls, which we just don't have, and I really think Bioclipse is the platform for this sort of development. I think the Jmol application animation controls are not up to it. Now, if someone wants to update that, it would be great, but I think this should probably be part of that package. Nico, the action is simply viewer.scriptWait("load append " + Escape.escape(filename)); Shall I commit this change to Jmol.java and GuiMap.java, or just let it go? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nicolas (nicove) Date: 2007-05-01 17:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1096197 Originator: NO Modifying the Open dialog box should be quite easy (since we already have FilePreview class). Bob, after that, is it difficult to call "load append" from org.openscience.org.jmol.app.Jmol.OpenAction instead of "load" ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bob Hanson (hansonr) Date: 2007-05-01 15:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1082841 Originator: NO A good idea; not going to happen until someone comes along with an interest in developing the app as a "real" application and not just a testing tool. It needs a lot of work; mostly we've said that Bioclipse takes that role for us now. So for now you are stuck with just using the command line. On the other hand, the first idea sounds simple enough. Maybe just a menu item "Load append" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379136&aid=1699227&group_id=23629 |