Re: [Jmol-users] documentation examples fail in IE

[Eric M. <em...@mi...>]

At 8/28/05, you wrote:
> >> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/docs/#.atom%20expressions
> >> then click on "in a new window using 1blu.pdb"
>
>You should see a message "creating Jmol Applet", and the page should load.
>All I added was an alert in _jmolApplet().
>
>Believe it or not, this is the ONLY change in the code.

Hi, Bob,

This works for me, too, in IE, Win98.

Tim and Frieda and I have encountered many peculiar timing issues like this 
one in javascript. To avoid using the ugly alert, try segregating the code 
after the alert into a separate function, then instead of putting the alert 
before calling the function, call it after a delay

setTimeout("new_function()", 100);

where "100" is the time delay in milliseconds. Not infrequently, a single 
millisecond delay makes all the difference, but I usually determine the 
minimum that works and then increase it as high as seems tolerable.

(There are 5 or 10 such delays in the startup of Protein Explorer, which 
explains some of its startup sluggishness, but there are a lot of 
messagecallback transactions and parsing going on in the background!)


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Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz