Re: [Jmol-users] Single quote vs. prime

[Philip B. <pb...@sa...>]

This interesting thing is that the current code works in Opera.

Phil

On Jun 12, 2004, at 3:12 AM, Miguel wrote:

>> 1. In jmol, if I open a second window, the icons are missing in the 
>> menu
> bar except for the load one.   If you clink at the right places on the
> bar, the others show up.
>
> Works for me on Linux. Don't recall any changes to this code.
>
> In fact, the code for rendering the menubar is coming out of a standard
> Java Library. Did Apple release updates to Java ... sounds like a
> Java/Apple bug.
>
>
>> 2. The applet seems to have broken my tutorial.
> [snip]
>> <param name="script" value ="load 'molecule6/molecule6.pdb'; ...
>
> Tim wrote:
>
>> you have extra single quotes in there.
> [snip]
>> FileManager.openFile('molecule6/molecule6.pdb')
>> error opening
>> http://www.saintmarys.edu/~pbays/StChem/DCC/'molecule6/molecule6.pdb'
>
> Tim is correct in that the problem is in the quotes.
>
> Phil is correct in that this used to work. I think I changed/broke 
> this in
> v10pre10. This is the first report I have received of a problem, so I 
> was
> beginning to think that I could get away with it without anyone 
> noticing
> :-)
>
> Jmol no longer accepts single quotes in order to quote strings. My
> reasoning is that we need to reserve the single quote character for 
> the '
> prime. While it does not work yet, I want people to be able to write 
> atom
> expressions using the ' prime as an alternate to the * used in .pdb 
> files.
>
> The RasMol 2.6b2 doc only mentions quotes in the context of the 'echo'
> command ... The string parameter may optionally be delimited in double
> quote characters.
>
> Therefore, I thought that I could get away with it.
>
> Let's break this down into a few pieces ...
>
>  * In this case, your code will work fine if you remove the single 
> quotes
> from around the filename. In fact, your other scripts that load other
> molecules must not have the filename in quotes. Otherwise they would be
> dying with the same problem.
>
>  * IF this becomes a problem in the future with other peoples' scripts,
> then I will see if I can work on the script parser so that will do a
> better job of distinguishing between the single quote for strings and 
> the
> ' prime for atom expressions.
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
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