Release notes for 2.0.x releases

• August 12th 1999 Marvin 2.0.1: Edit/Molfile in both applets. Local help pages. The getL() method in MarvinView. Faster animation. Netscape 4.x memory overflow fixed.
• July 20th 1999 Marvin 2
  Since version 1.3:
  • Swing!
    

    Marvin 2 comes in two flavors, differing in look and feel: AWT for present browsers, Swing for the future

  • MarvinSketch
    • branching at a single click
    • easier chain drawing
    • smarter rotation of selections
    • easy access to many templates: rings, amino acids, polycyclics
    • for developers: easy template customization, template groups are stored in SD files
  • MarvinView
    • 3D rotation on web page
    • colored 3D structures
    • pop-up menu at right click with
      • items for zooming, translation, rotation
      • Hydrogen display options
      • clipboard actions
    • border in molecule tables
    • for developers
      • dialog boxes for error messages
      • JavaScripter applet is no longer needed
  • Import/Export
    • automatic file format recognition
    • new formats: SDF, Sybyl mol (beta), XYZ (experimental), POV-Ray (experimental)
    • GZIPped file import (Java 1.1 only)
  In spite of the outstanding new features, the size of the marvin.jar file containing both applets is only 78k, barely larger than in 1.3.3 (74k).

  Java source available for Molfile/SDfile compression.