[Jmol-users] Retrieving ellipsoid property from Jmol state

[Brian M. <bm...@iu...>]

Hello

I have a model loaded into a Jmol applet sitting in an HTML page.
I wish to populate a JavaScript variable with the current value of the
ellipsoid probability (as set, e.g. by "ellipsoids 50") when I open
a fresh tab on that page, via an onClick method. How can I most easily
retrieve that value?

So far I have

    'onClick': function(argsObj) {
       var stateInfo=jmolGetPropertyAsString("stateInfo")
       alert(stateInfo)
       return true;
    }

which pops up an alert showing the entire current state (in which
"Ellipsoids 50" appears). Where the alert is called I guess I could parse
the stateInfo string and assign the desired value to my variable. Is there a
more direct way, e.g. by analogy with the modelInfo.modelCount method
of the methodInfo array as shown on the Jmol scripts documentation page?

  var modelInfo = jmolGetPropertyAsArray("modelInfo")
  alert(modelInfo.modelCount)

Thanks
Brian
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