Re: [Jmol-developers] Float.parseFloat() did not exist ...

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Hi  Miguel,

Yikes.

I did a little bit of Java applet stuff back in the mid 90s and only=20
recently started looking at Java again. I was not aware that those=20
wrapper object were not available in earlier versions of Java. Since I=20=

am writing on a Mac OS X system using Safari as the browser, I don't=20
think would have even noticed the problem if I had tried out the=20
applet.

Good thing you are checking up on me :-).

Ren=E9

On Oct 17, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Miguel wrote:

> Rene,
>
> In your modified/improved GaussianReader you are calling
> Float.parseFloat(String)
>
> Unfortunately for everyone, this did not exist in Java 1.1.
>
> Therefore, we cannot use this method or the applet will crash on
> InternetExplorer and Netscape 4.*
>
> This is not a big deal ... we just need to change to calling our own
> parseFloat routine that is in ModelReader.java. Since we are a=20
> subclass we
> can just call parseFloat directly. This has the additional convenience=20=

> of
> not throwing exceptions ... it just returns a NaN.
>
> We can do the same for parseInt.
>
> The change is below.
>
> Miguel
>
>   try {
>     atom.vectorX =3D Float.parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>     atom.vectorY =3D Float.parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>     atom.vectorZ =3D Float.parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>   }
>   catch (NumberFormatException e)
>     {
>       System.out.println("NumberFormatException in " + line);
>     }
>
> becomes
>   atom.vectorX =3D parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>   atom.vectorY =3D parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>   atom.vectorZ =3D parseFloat(tokens[offset++]);
>
>
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