Re: [Jmol-developers] How do I control Jmol from an external application?

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

please consider posting it with us on SourceForge within Jmol.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Benn Snyder <ben...@gm...> wrote:

> I was bashing my head against a wall most of yesterday until I figured out
> that JSON strings must be newline terminated for JsonNioService to accept
> them.  Now it works - I can send JSON commands from my program to Jmol with
> sync on an arbitrary host and port using a little C socket lib I wrote.
> Now I'm working on a C++ wrapper class for the functionality I need.  I'll
> post code soon, on Github or similar.
>
>
> Regards,
> Benn
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Robert Hanson <ha...@st...> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the MPJmolApp.java
>>
>> Basically you open a socket on port 3000 and start sending requests. I
>> think you would set up Jmol with sync -3000 so that it is the server, not
>> the client.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Benn Snyder <ben...@gm...>wrote:
>>
>>>  Bob,
>>>
>>> Alright, I have checked out trunk.  I can get two instances of Jmol to
>>> communicate by doing
>>> Jmol1: $ sync -3000
>>> Jmol2: $ sync 3000 'command'
>>>
>>> But I am stumped as to how to do this from C++.  As for the Kinect, I am
>>> using OpenNI/NITE.  I've seen what MolecularPlayground has done and we'd
>>> like to do something similar but hopefully more complex and in-depth.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Benn
>>>
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Robert M. Hanson
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Chair, Chemistry Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
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If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900