RE: [Jmol-developers] Help

[C Y <smu...@ya...>]

Thanks!  As it turns out, the build.xml script needed
a directory called docbook in the location immediately
above the directory where the build script was
located, or in netbean's case where the build was
taking place.  It might be a good idea in the source
release to include the empty directory in the zip
file, just anyone else is as dumb as I am about java.

Now the more interesting question(s).  I'm trying to
create an ExportAll class based on the export class
already present which will cycle through all the
frames of an animation and output all of them.  The
basic approach I'm taking (experienced coders feel
free to blow me out of the water on this) is to call
the export GUI dialog used for one frame, take the
options from that one dialog, and simply bump the
frame forward in a loop and save the frames over and
over on the original settings.  So, here are the
questions:

Will I get away with changing frames and keeping the
same export properties?  Or will it reset if I change
to another frame?

How do I handle the filename of the exported graphic
image?  My thought is to get a base name from the name
entered in the save dialog, and simply tack on numbers
to that inside a loop, and have the program write
using the basename + # format.  That appoach works
pretty well for the berkeley mpeg_encode program,
which is the only free encoder I'm aware of.  Problem:
 How do I generate the basename + # combination, and
get FileOutputStream to use it?  Is the arguement to
FileOutputStream (type File) simply a string, or is it
more complicated?  If it is just a string, how do I
concatinate a string and a number to make a new string
in java?

Thanks for tolerating me guys -  I know I've got no
business coding this but unfortunately it would be a
really nice feature to have for some work we're doing.



CY

--- "Fulton, Charles (CR)" <ful...@do...> wrote:
> A real quick response, I'm not on my developement
> machine.. make sure your
> classpath setting inside of Netbeans includes any
> relevent jar files. You
> can put .jar files (I believe they have to have .jar
> extension) inside of
> $HOME/.netbeans/jars (look for where the plugin jar
> files are). 
> 
> that might get you a bit further.. 
> 
> -charlie.



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