[Jmol-users] A little more javascript help please?

[Jeff H. <jh...@de...>]

I've posted a couple of questions in the past few days and several of  
you have given me some very good help that has put me in the right  
direction.  Now let me give you a little background on what I'm trying  
to do.  I'm working on learning javascript and the DOM and thought a  
good project to do this would be to make a page that would create a  
new div and put a jmol applet in it.  Thanks to your help I am making  
some progress on this.  At this point I've got a menu that sends a  
reference to a pdb file to a function which creates the new div and  
starts the jmol applet.  The code is below.  I'm having two problems  
with it.  The first problem is how the jmol applet appears on the page  
when I call this function.  It is basically clearing the page so that  
the only thing that shows is the applet.  The original applet that was  
there and the pulldown menu disappear.  I tried using  
newDiv.appendChild instead of newDiv.update but this didn't work at  
all.  If I comment out the jmolApplet(400... line then [object Object]  
appears on the page below the pulldown menu (where I expect it).  The  
second problem is that when the new applet is added to the page no  
molecule is loaded in it.  The alert command just before the  
jmolApplet line shows just what I expect it to show, but I still only  
get a blank jmol applet.  So if you have any suggestions to help me  
get the rest of the way to where I'm trying to get I'd really  
appreciate it.


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Jeff Hansen
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
DePauw University
602 S. College Ave.
Greencastle, IN 46135
jh...@de...
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