Re: [Jmol-developers] Current best version for developing plug-ins

[Egon W. <eg...@us...>]

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On Monday 27 September 2004 15:01, Miguel wrote:
> Egon wrote:
> > would it be useful to add the get counterpart for this method, i.e.
> > getChemFile() -> Reader ?
> >
> > That would make the CDKEditBus API symmetrical again, and would allow t=
he
> > following:
> >
> > a plugin can receive a 'update' event from the CDKEditBus, and can, if =
it
> > wants too, get a new copy of the model displayed in the program. The
> > ChemObjectTree plugin uses that, for example. This mechanism can be used
> > to keep the plugin GUI contents up to date with whatever the application
> > shows... By using this mechanism, the NMR plugin would not have to use a
> > local file opener, but just receive those events, and update it's conte=
nt
> > when a new Gaussian file is displayed in Jmol....
> >
> > Let me know...
>
> Sorry Egon, I did not understand this. What are you recommending?

To extend the CDKEditBus API with the method:

public Reader getChemFile();

So that a plugin can get a file on byte level too... This would have the=20
advantage that the plugin can read information from the file which the Jmol=
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reader cannot... e.g. chemical shifts...

(Did that help?)

Egon

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