Re: [Jmol-users] Backwards compatibility with old scripts

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

Right -- that's a very high priority. I know of no such script breaking.
Bill's problem was that he was using JmolAppletControl, not anything with
the scripts themselves.

Bob


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Eric Martz <em...@mi...>wrote:

> Just to emphasize what may be obvious, it will help us a lot if new
> versions of Jmol continue to run scripts that worked with 11.5.x.
> Proteopedia.Org stores Jmol state scripts on the server, and as more
> and more pages are added, these are getting more numerous (a good
> thing). Hopefully new versions of Jmol can avoid breaking these
> existing hundreds or thousands of scripts.
>
> (Currently Proteopedia is using 11.5.51. We upgrade whenever there is
> a known issue, but only then, because we can't check every page for
> broken scripts -- so better to upgrade infrequently and hope that we
> notice any problems.)
>
> Thanks, -Eric
>
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