Re: [Jmol-users] Desired <applet> param changes

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

Miguel, while this will obviously result in the need for a lot of retooling, if 
it solves the problem that molecules load AND DISPLAY prior to script execution, 
then I'm all for it. I think I'm right about this -- sometimes you see a 
molecule in some sort of "default" display prior to a script being run. I might 
be wrong and all I am seeing is the effect of my script running as a separate 
.script() command; I can't remember.

One question is how this effects the properties file. When do properties get 
processed -- just after loading and before any other scripts are run? Does this 
make any difference there?

Bob


Miguel wrote:

> For those of you who are writing html pages with explicit <applet> tags to
> load the JmolApplet ...
> 
> I would like to eliminate some of the <param> tags that are currently
> supported.
> 
> In particular, I would like to eliminate support for the following tags:
> 
> load
> frank
> debugscript
> 
> Each of these things can be handled as part of the 'script' parameter.
> 
> <param name="load" value="caffeine.xyz">
> <param name="frank" value="off">
> <param name="script" value="spacefill off">
> 
> will become
> 
> <param name="script" value="load caffeine.xyz; set frank off; spacefill off">
> 
> In addition to simplifying the code and reducing the number of parameters
> to the applet, it will offer the advantage of loading the model as part of
> the script execution thread.
> 
> Previous versions of Jmol had many parameters to the applet. But that is
> because older versions of Jmol did not have a scripting language.
> 
> Similarly, Chime had a large set of _embed_ parameters that controlled
> things as part of the plugin definition.
> 
> Please let me know if you can see any good reason not to make this change
> prior to the v10 release.
> 
> 
> Miguel
> 
> 
> 
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