David Gohara wrote this. My guess is he could be talked into getting it working. He is exceptionally helpful and extremely knowledgeable, so in my humble opinion he would be a perfect contributor.
On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > Paul, I can imagine building MacDials from a USB hub and eight PowerMates. > Would even be cheaper than the original dials, and glow blue. But everyone > has old dials lying around... > > The SBGrid implementation of the dials worked beautifully. It would be so > nice to have that available in the current release of coot because 0.1 > doesn't really cut it anymore, does it? Every time I'd ask a question on the > mailing list, you'd be entirely justified to admonish me to upgrade to the > latest coot. > > > Andreas > > > On 11/01/2010 12:09, Paul Emsley wrote: >> Oliver Clarke wrote: >>> >>> Apologies if this has been asked before - does anyone know if it is >>> possible (and if so, how) to get an SGI dial box to work with Coot 0.6? >> >> Yes and no. The SBGrid build a version of Coot-0.1 with sgi dials >> enabled for Mac OS X (it may still be available on their web site). >> (They gave me the interface code, but I was never able to compile it, so >> it didn't make it into the main line.) >> >> As Andreas says, a PowerMate is the way to go for now, if you have a >> Mac. You can bind various rotations to generate key presses and >> configure Coot to react to key presses. I believe that you can plug in >> several PowerMates and use them together (not tried it myself though). >> >> >> Paul. >> > > -- > Andreas Förster, Research Associate > Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs > Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London > http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
