Re: [Jmol-users] __Jmol visualization with Supercells

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

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:11 AM, krishna Mohan Grangadhran Prasanna <
gpk...@po...> wrote:

>  Sorry for my last EMPTY mail:
>
> Dear Robert Hassen,
>
> Many thanks for your scripts and latest version of Jmol. Of course it is
> very useful & I got repeated images of the supercell.
>
> Still I have a question:
> Since newbies like me prefer GUI than *console interaction* to display
> supercells, Can Jmol do it via its GUI (simply by clicks)? OR console
> command is still a necessary?
>
>
Interesting question! We could never anticipate all the interesting things
people would want to do with Jmol. The philosophy is quite different from
most programs. So we have not tried to make a GUI that does every sort of
thing that people would want to do.

The real value of Jmol is that it is scriptable. What you can do is to
create a web page -- maybe even just on your own computer using the signed
applet -- and then add buttons that run your scripts. Thus, you can
customize Jmol to do anything you want, and there is no need for "plug-ins"
like other programs.

And you can customize the pop-up menu to do whatever you want as well.

So, yes, there's a learning curve, and yes, using  the console is
necessary.




> My team is now working for an open-source GUI based on Jmol+Java, in
> windows platform for DFTB+ program; And we really like to have this feature
> in it (displaying supercells via GUI rather by using console...).
>
>
Ah, right, I see. So then you are already well into that other possible
option. OK, then what you do is add a bit of customization to the Jmol
pop-up menu if you want, and you should be all set. And since you have that
additional GUI, you can just create that interface yourself outside of Jmol
itself.

Just tie whatever you do to viewer.script(), and it should work perfectly.

Bob Hanson


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