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
.