Communicating with GenomeView - Revision history

Thomas Admin: /* Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended) */

2013-11-18T21:58:31Z

Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

2013-11-18T21:44:02Z

Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

2013-11-18T21:22:31Z

Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

2013-11-15T23:40:15Z

Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

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Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

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Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

2013-11-15T23:38:14Z

Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

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Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)

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 | Move the visible region to the specified location. The position is in the format <code>[entry]:[start position]:[end position]</code> The entry part is optional can be omitted in which case it becomes <code>[start position]:[end position]</code>
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 | isAlive(callback)
 | Check whether a GenomeView instance is alive. <code>callback</code> should be a javascript function that you define that will be called by the script and will have a variable <code>isAlive</code> available that you can use. This could be used to check whether there is already a GenomeView instance launched and based on that information start an instance or load the data into the existing one.

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 | launchGV(command line)
-| Launch GenomeView with the file at the specified url as configuration file. If no url is specified an empty config is loaded.
+| Launch GenomeView with the specified command line options.
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 | loadGV(url)

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 | launchGV(command line)
-| Launch GenomeView with the file at the specified url as configuration file. If no url is specified an empty config is loaded with <code>integration:monitorJavaScript=true</code>.
+| Launch GenomeView with the file at the specified url as configuration file. If no url is specified an empty config is loaded.
 |-
 | loadGV(url)

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 | isAlive(callback)
-| Check whether a GenomeView instance is alive. <code>callback</code> should be a javascript function that you define that will be called by the script and will have a variable <code>isAlive</code> available that you can use. See the <a href="http://genomeview.org/jsdemo/testalive.html">example </a> for more details
+| Check whether a GenomeView instance is alive. <code>callback</code> should be a javascript function that you define that will be called by the script and will have a variable <code>isAlive</code> available that you can use. This could be used to check whether there is already a GenomeView instance launched and based on that information start an instance or load the data into the existing one.
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 | setInstanceID(id)

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   <nowiki><script type="text/javascript" src="http://genomeview.org/start/genomeview.js"></script></nowiki>
-By default the instructions will only work with the GenomeView instance that was launched from the same page with launchGV() instruction. To override this behavior you can set the instanceID to 'ALL'
+By default the instructions will only work with the GenomeView instance that was launched from the same page with launchGV() instruction. To override this behavior you can set the instanceID to 'ALL' or alternatively you can call 'setInstructAllInstancesGV()'
   <script>instanceID='ALL'</script>

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 | Any commands after this function call will be send to all GenomeView instances
 |}
 == Examples ==

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   <script>instanceID='ALL'</script>
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 ! Instruction

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 ==Controlling GenomeView using JavaScript (recommended)==
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 ! Description
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-| launchGV(url)
+| launchGV(command line)
-| Launch GenomeView with the file at the specified url as configuration file. If no url is specified an empty config is loaded with <code>integration:monitorJavaScript=true</code>. See <a href="http://genomeview.org/jsdemo/testlaunch.html">example</a> for more details.
+| Launch GenomeView with the file at the specified url as configuration file. If no url is specified an empty config is loaded with <code>integration:monitorJavaScript=true</code>.
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 | loadGV(url)
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 |}
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-</table>
+== Examples ==
 ==Controlling GenomeView using a port==