Re: [Jmol-users] not a turing machine

[David L. <d.l...@bi...>]

Miguel picked up a point I made earlier:

>  > If I were programming this
>>  within the applet in Java it would be quite easy to prevent this
>>  happening, but I see no way with simple select/deselect type commands
>>  of the rasmol-type scripting language.
>
>I don't see a way to solve this problem either.
>
>I think that you need to have variables to have some indication of the
>current state. (One can define sets in the RasMol scripting language, but
>one cannot *redefine* them).
>
>I know that you have been avoiding JavaScript, but I think that is the
>only solution.
>
>(Now is not a good time to talk about extending the scripting language).

Good to hear that's a possibility. I'll have a look at it sometime in 
the New Year (not before February with my current workload). I have 
done some javascript, but never played with LiveConnect.

David
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