Re: [Jmol-users] investigating the top menu on app

[Egon W. <ewi...@un...>]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:41:49 Angel Herraez wrote:
> I have observed this behaviour with Jmol application, 11.0, WinXP :
>
> 1)
> Top menu: File > New
> opens a new window -useful
> But then, closing the new window (either by menu or clicking on the
> windows close button) also closes the first one! Not so useful :-(

Sounds like a bug... see below.

> 2)
> Also, there is still the old question that we have
>     File > Close
> and
>     File > Exit
> which both close the window. One would expect the "close" option to
> do a "zap", i.e. remove the molecule without closing the program
> window.

Close is supposed to close one window but keep the application if there are 
other windows, while Exit is supposed to close all windows and exit the 
complete Jmol application.

> 3) There is a
>    Edit > Paste
> What is that supposed to paste, since there is no Copy?

Jmol does not have file writers (not in the past at least)... by pasting from 
other programs was/is still useful.

Egon


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