Bernhard Kubicek wrote: > Hi there, > As a (newly) proud owner of a 3dconnextion space navigator > http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigator.php > I also would like to use it with gmsh in linux. > Searching for some demo source code, I was quite sucessful, and already > managed to access the device by the attached code, which I changed a bit > (sadly using c++) to find the correct event device automatically. Its > not high quality code yet, i only spend 15 min on changing it. > > However, to add a patch to support this space mouse in gmsh, I would > need to add a polling routine to gmsh, that is exectued e.g. each 50 ms > and checks the device for the current position, and changes the view > angles accordingly. > > Where in the source would be a good point to hook this into gmsh??
Hi Bernhard - All the mouse interaction is done in Fltk/Opengl_Window.cpp: it's probably a good place to start. > > I really havent looked into how to access the device in windows. > > very nice greetings, > Bernhard > > PS: the thing works awsome under windows, as expected, but only with > supported software, e.g. pro engineer. In linux, there is a plugin for > blender and maya, which both I both don't really care about. Google > earth only works in windows. Also, on could in principle steer the mouse > cursor with the space mouse, but I wonder what that should be good > for... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
