CDK-JChemPaint #9: implicit hydrogens and isotopes

Next in this series (after #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8), I'll show how to add implicit hydrogens to a drawing. I actually think the BasicAtomGenerator should cover implicit hydrogens, and the ExtendedAtomGenerator anything that requires more CDK modules than just the interfaces, like isotopes. But I discovered that implicit hydrogens currently also requires the ExtendedAtomContainer too late. In fact, there are other things I like to see changed, but I do not have the resources for that right now. So, you will need the CDK-JChemPaint jar (which is not the JChemPaint code!).

In fact, besides these points, it basically just comes down to replacing the BasicAtomGenerator with the ExtendedAtomGenerator. Except a bug I found. I'll fix that in the next release, but right now, the extended atom generator requires the AtomNumberGenerator to be loaded as well, and thus we also must turn atom numbering off. Therefore, we basically get this code snippet (here's the full code):

// generators make the image elements
List<IGenerator> generators = new ArrayList<IGenerator>();
generators.add(new BasicSceneGenerator());
generators.add(new BasicBondGenerator());
generators.add(new AtomNumberGenerator());
generators.add(new ExtendedAtomGenerator());

// the renderer needs to have a toolkit-specific font manager
AtomContainerRenderer renderer =
  new AtomContainerRenderer(generators, new AWTFontManager());

// disable atom number rendering
model = renderer.getRenderer2DModel()
model.set(WillDrawAtomNumbers.class, Boolean.FALSE)

As said, this code will be simpler in the next CDK-JChemPaint release. The results looks like:

 

As you can see by the amount of whitespace around the carbon, the scaling issue has not been resolved yet :(

Drawing isotope information works pretty much in the same way. In fact, we do not even have to change the rendering code, and the ExtendedAtomContainer automatically adds the isotope information (and no, indeed, not in the expected superscript fashion; so, another thing to fix):

But alas, there are always things to fix. I'm personally not aesthetically pleased with the kerning of just CH₄ either.