Re: [Jmol-users] Retrieving ellipsoid property from Jmol state

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

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Brian McMahon <bm...@iu...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have a model loaded into a Jmol applet sitting in an HTML page.
> I wish to populate a JavaScript variable with the current value of the
> ellipsoid probability (as set, e.g. by "ellipsoids 50") when I open
> a fresh tab on that page, via an onClick method. How can I most easily
> retrieve that value?
>
> So far I have
>
>    'onClick': function(argsObj) {
>       var stateInfo=jmolGetPropertyAsString("stateInfo")
>       alert(stateInfo)
>       return true;
>    }
>


      var stateInfo=
jmolEvaluate('getProperty("stateInfo").lines.find("Ellipsoids")')



>
> which pops up an alert showing the entire current state (in which
> "Ellipsoids 50" appears). Where the alert is called I guess I could parse
> the stateInfo string and assign the desired value to my variable. Is there
> a
> more direct way, e.g. by analogy with the modelInfo.modelCount method
> of the methodInfo array as shown on the Jmol scripts documentation page?
>
>  var modelInfo = jmolGetPropertyAsArray("modelInfo")
>  alert(modelInfo.modelCount)
>
> Thanks
> Brian
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