From: Miguel <mi...@jm...> - 2004-07-06 09:40:07
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> Am Montag, 5. Juli 2004 18:31 schrieb Miguel: >> Tim wrote: >> > By the way is there a command-line option for adjusting the >> > window size at start-up? >> >> No, but that is a very good idea. >> >> Q: What do you think about a user-preference instead of a >> command-line option? > > As long as it's scriptable (e.g. for batch jobs) it's fine for me. > Window-resizing is the only way for zooming that effects povray, > that's why I'd like to automate it. Is it the case that the only thing you are trying to automate is povray size? Now that I understand what you are trying to accomplish I see that there are a few problems. povray output can be completely independent of the jmol window size. We could also change the povray code so that you could pass arbitrary parameters to it. That way, you could choose the size of the povray window independent of the Jmol window size. The advantage would be that it would be more flexible. The disadvantage would be that the povray output would not be the same size as the Jmol window. Another problem ... we can set the Jmol application window size in pixels. But that is not the same as the viewer window size ... the actual display size. The Jmol application window size will include the menus, buttons, and window decorations. The difference between the app window size and the viewer size is platform and user-setting dependent. What are your thoughts? Miguel |