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<center>'''Please, post your suggestions concerning the Jmol extension here.'''</center>

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== Adding other components ==

=== Suggestion ===

List of components to add (feel free to add other components) :
* Checkbox {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|jmolCheckbox}}
* Radio button
* Link {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|jmolLink}}
* Menu
* Button/link opening a popup window with Jmol Applet in it {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|jmolAppletButton}} and {{Tag|jmolAppletLink}}

=== Comments ===


== Reading files ==

=== Suggestion ===

In the first version, the only way of giving a datafile to the applet is directly through the {{Tag|onlineContents}} tag.

Other ways need to be available:
* Accessing a file previously uploaded in MediaWiki {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|uploadedFileContents}}
* Accessing a file stored as a Wiki Page {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|wikiPageContents}}
* Accessing a file through an URL. That may require several other modifications: {{Done}} &rarr; {{Tag|urlContents}}
** Possibility to disable this feature in LocalSettings.php {{Done}}
** Possibility to use the signed applet to access a remote file (configurable in LocalSettings.php) {{Done}}

''Note: Accessing files directly will also give the possibility to load gzipped files directly since Jmol read gzipped files as well as non-compressed files.''

=== Comments ===

* all files should be accessible via a common category, this will allow to browse to all files at the same time. In other words, this will allow to build up a data repository, which allows downloading all at once.
: {{Tag|uploadedFileContents}} can be used to use uploaded files. In the description of the file, it's possible to add the file in categories. On this Wiki, the category is [[:Category:Molecular_Data|Molecular Data]]. --[[User:NicolasVervelle|Nico]]
: {{Tag|wikiPageContents}} and <tt>$wgJmolForceNameSpace</tt> can be used to put all the ''files'' in one namespace (not a category). --[[User:NicolasVervelle|Nico]]

* If possible a second tool should be able to generate an archive file out of that.

* Is it possible to extend this approach also to JChemPaint and CDK/JOELib to get 2D drawings and calculate physicochemical properties? E.g. toxicity, solubility, etc.?
: Currently, I don't know how JChemPaint and CDK/JOELib work. I won't do it for the first version of the Jmol Extension, but I would happily discuss with people about this. --[[User:NicolasVervelle|Nico]]


== Extending to other tools of the Blue Obelisk ==

Since this approach is quite general for other tools, too. It might be interesting to include also other tools of the [http://www.blueobelisk.org/ Blue Obelisk Movement], e.g.:
* 2D layout and drawings: JChemPaint
* feature calculation: CDK,JOELib
* NMR predictions: CDK
* etc.