Hi all, here's an update for the SpaceNav work I did over the summer. Hopefully this will help with future development.
> From the svn logs he made very good progress. He commented there > that his ndof implementation is working in Windows and Mac but in my > Linux it did not worked :( Yeah, sorry I never got around to Linux! It should be fairly easy to integrate this summer's GHOST_NDOFManager code on that OS as well. Nuclear (creator of open source driver) offered to help with this, and his API is much cleaner than 3Dconnexion's ancient Magellan API. I highly recommend using the open source driver and ignoring the legacy support. > And based on the part of the code I saw, I think that his work is > going to be much more clean than my patch :D Thanks! The older NDOF system was a mess, so I started over with proper handling of the device and its events. Operators, keymaps, all that. As a bonus, users no longer need to find and install a plugin -- all support is built in to blender. Built-in support: There was one issue with 3Dconnexion not allowing svn distribution of their Mac header files (even though these are part of the freely downloadable driver package) but that can be resolved later by using the Mac's HID manager directly. Yet another reason to use the open driver on Linux! Strangely enough, this is not an issue on Windows. > When his work is going to be merged to the trunk? Only at the end of > the GSoC project? The project is officially over, after which I got sucked into grad school full time. Over the holiday I've been working on blender's tablet code only. There are tablet bug reports with my name on them, and I want them gone ASAP! :) This requires simultaneous cross-platform changes, so it's in a new branch (branches/merwin-tablet). Once the tablet is working great on all platforms, I'll submit one big patch. SpaceNav is still on my radar, as enthusiastic users, coders, and 3Dconnexion employees continue to "encourage" progress in this area. > From the GSoC project log I think he still has a lot of work to do :( Yes and no. The foundational stuff is all in place except the Linux contribution to GHOST_NDOFManager. That should take a day or two once you're familiar. Much more work is needed for operators and spaces to actually use these events. I used the 3D view to test the new event layers below -- motion events change the view turntable style, and one of the buttons fits the selection into view. The bulk of future work will be to expand tools and such to deal with NDOF events in interesting and useful ways. So I don't have a lot of work to do, but *we* do! :) That's it for now! Glad someone else is interested in getting this stuff working again. Mike Erwin musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
