[Jmol-users] Jmol v10 prerelease 7

[Miguel <mi...@jm...>]

Jmol v10pre7 is now released.

It can be retrieved from:
  http://jmol.sf.net/betatest


Please be on the lookout for mouse bugs, particularly on older JVMs ... IE
with MSFT JVM, and Win32 Netscape 4.*.

I did not have a chance to test any of this on MacOS 9. Someone please try
out IE and Netscape 4.*.


Thanks,
Miguel

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Jmol version 10 pre-release 7 was released on 22 Mar 2004. This release
includes the following enhancements:

    * support for wheel mouse on JVM 1.4 and greater
    * support for CTL-click to bring up popup menu on Mac OS.
    * support for distance/angle/torsion measurements using dbl-click
      Please be on the lookout for mouse gesture bugs
    * support for ShelX .res files
    * occupancy as an atom property
    * corrected bugs in atom expressions with chains x, y, or z
    * ability to redirect *echo* output to the Applet window
      set echo {top|middle|bottom|none|off} {left|center|right}
      echo Hello World!
    * label colors and fonts are individually controllable,
      according to the selection set.
    * support for 'font' as an extended command
      font {object} {points} {Serif|SansSerif|Monospaced}
           {Normal|Bold|Italic|BoldItalic}
      font label 12
      font echo 14 SansSerif Bold
    * browser status line is updated when an atom is picked

This release continues to have the following functional limitations:

    * Now only supports .xyz, .mol, .pdb, and .res files
    * Does not have full animation support
    * Does not handle vibrations
    * Does not have full crystal cell support
    * Will not automatically recognize protein secondary structures
    * Will not render isosurfaces
    * Does not handle nucleotide graphic shapes