[Jmol-users] GUI Widgets Questions

[Lin Y. <te...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I have a few questions regarding some GUI widgets I'm trying to build for a
website.

1. I will need to highlight some residues that the user selected via mouse.
I read in the documentation that this could be done using the pickCallback,
but it returns the atom index instead of residue index.  What's the quickest
way to translate between the two?

2. I also need to highlight certain residues that user entered in a
textbox.  I'm thinking of using a JmolButton, but I cannot find a way to tie
an input textbox to it.  The only other way I saw is to use a
JmolCommandInput, but that will run a script entered, and I only want it to
highlight residues.  What is the best way to do this?

3. I plan to have two combo boxes for loading protein structures, where the
items in the second combo box will depend on the item selected from the
first combo box.  How do I tie these two combo boxes together?

I also have some general questions about Jmol:

Is there a limit on how many models you could load onto an applet?  I will
need to super impose some models for my project and I don't want to crash
the browser or anything else for that matter.

Is Jmol fully compatible with java 1.7 now?  I was having issues with Jmol
using java1.7.

Thank you guys very much.


Lin
Department of Bioinformatics
University of Kansas