Re: [Jmol-users] Re: javascript libraiy

[Jan R. <jr...@im...>]

Miguel wrote:

>Paul wrote:
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>>Jean-Philippe Demers has created a library for interacting with Chime,
>>and specially to deal with the liveconnect issue in internet explorer :
>>http://www3.sympatico.ca/diane.demers/moi/
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>Thank you for pointing this out.
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>It would be good if someone with extensive Chime & JavaScript experience
>could take a look at it.
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without extensive Chime & JavaScript experience I only read this 
sentence on the page:
"
*It appears that your current configuration is NOT compatible with the 
Mechanism of Interaction.*
"
and I'm using Mozilla1.7rc3 on XP with Chime2.6sp5

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>>Lots of sophisticated mechanisms are included in it, as a message
>>unscrambling method, a mechanism to test that all scripts are performed
>>and stack the following ones in memory...
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>I hope that some of these mechanisms that were needed to work around
>problems in Chime will not be necessary in Jmol :-)
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>>These features are mainly inspired by the Eric Martz's work on protein
>>explorer, but were redisigned to manage several instances of plugin
>>inside the same web page.
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>OK
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>>I don't think that much people has implemented these scripts on their
>>sites.
>>It could be a good idea to create a library for jmol, but it should be
>>very simple to use, otherwise it would only concern power-users who are
>>already able to do this by themselves !
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>A very good point.
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>We certainly need to start with a simple library that automates basic
>operations.
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I agree.
and without excelent documentation nobody would use it.
Regards, Jan