[ghemical-devel] New Molecular Editor links

[Jean Bréfort]

Le jeudi 27 janvier 2005 à 19:10 +0200, Tommi Hassinen a écrit :

> Yep, good ideas/code from other editors are most welcome. On the other
> hand, having alternative editors is also an important goal. For example
> the java editor JMol is very interesting, and very rapidly developing
> project offering some unique features (applets in a web browser, although
> I found a bonobo-object wrapper plugin for Mozilla that could work the
> same way). Packing modules for certain functionality in libraries and
> making it accessible in other programs is helpful for all projects.
> OpenBabel is such a module for file operations, and I'm trying to make
> libghemical a module for molecular mechanics stuff (and an interface in
> some QM programs).

I suppose that the bonobo-object wrapper is mozilla-bonobo. It works,
but, unfortunately, will probably not be developped further since the
Bonobo technology will be obsoleted in a near future (AFAIK in 2006 when
gtk+3 and gnome-3 are released). It should be replaced by D-BUS.

Regards,
Jean