Re: [Jmol-developers] show

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

Miguel wrote:

> Bob wrote:
> 
>>I really like
>>
>>show pdbheader
>>
>>because it allows JavaScript access to the header. This would be
>>valuable for all file types, as there is often a comment line in there
>>that could provide more context.
>>
>>Q: How hard would it be to add "show file"?
>>
>>(Which would dump the input data to the message callback queue.)
> 
> 
> You want to dump the whole file?
> 

Yes, unless there is another way to get it. I know you are thinking in terms of 
huge PDB files, but there are many smaller files that people would be using. In 
nec, there could be a maximum number of bytes, say 30K.


> 
>>Speaking of which, I swear I remember seeing an "edit" menu item.... How
>>is a user able to view (and clip) the file data otherwise?
> 
> 
> Not sure what you are referring to.
> 

Must have been something else. As a plug-in, Chime can write files to disk. As 
an applet, I understand that Jmol can't, but still there is much use for seeing 
the data and often saving it to disk. Right now I don't see how this is possible 
in Jmol, but I would imagine since the rasmol header is "showable" that whole 
files would be also. If there is no other way, then a simple addition of "show 
file" would be useful.


> 
>>Q: Should I remove the "show animation" documentation? Should it be
>>modified in Eval.java?

The show() function has a case Token.animation, so I assume that means you can say

show animation

but I don't see what that does/would do. My question simply relates to how you 
see it fitting into documentation. My thought was that I should just ignore it. 
I see now that it is just a placeholder. OK. (It's not like I wanted it...)


Bob

> 
> 
> I don't understand what you are asking.
> 
> If 'show animation' exists in Chime then it should exist in Jmol.
> 
> If it is broken (or not implemented) in Jmol then you should file a bug
> report to the Jmol bug database.
> 
> 
>>Q: What use is "show model"?
> 
> 
> I have no idea. It probably existed in RasMol and/or Chime, so I put it
> there as a placeholder.
> 
> Today, there is no other way to know how many models there are in a file.
> 
> 
> Miguel
> 
> 
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