Benn,
Also -- so that I can learn what you are doing there -- could you add some
inline comments in MoleK.java that explain exactly what each of the calls
to OpenNI are doing? There's a great teaching opportunity for you here....
Oh, my. Looking at the code now, I can tell you that you have opened up a
whole new world for us. What you have done is to write a stand-alone app.
Perfect. Now what I would like to do is to pull all this into Jmol so that
with the flip of a switch the applet or app can have all these gestures. In
that case, this should go in org.jmol.multitouch. Looks sweet!
Can you explain how the platform-dependence works? You have to also start
a platform-specific C++ based driver, right? Like we do with SparshUI?
Have you checked this out on Windows and Mac or just one of those?
Bob
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu> wrote:
> Benn, could you do me a favor? Could you replace
>
> import org.OpenNI.*;
>
>
>
> with actual import references and not ".*" ? This will help other
> developers see where the dependencies are and where they are coming from.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Benn Snyder <benn.sny...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I posted to this list near the beginning of the summer about developing a
>> gesture-based control interface to Jmol (a la Molecular
>> Playground<http://molecularplayground.org/>).
>> My early attempts in C++ using Jmol's socket scripting interface got me on
>> the right track and thanks to Robert Hanson's assistance, the project made
>> steady progress. However, headaches arose when I tried to get the project
>> running on different platforms.
>>
>> A rewrite in Java resulted in cleaner, more modular code with fewer
>> dependencies. I just published this Java port, dubbed
>> moleK<https://github.com/piedar/moleK>,
>> on github. It's far from complete, but I think it provides a good basis.
>> When we last corresponded Robert expressed interest in getting this into
>> Jmol, so here I am to ask - how do I do that?
>>
>> As it is now, I've embedded a JmolPanel in my app using
>> org.jmol.api.JmolViewer and I control it with that class's functions, most
>> commonly with scripting via evalString(). The part of my code that
>> controls Jmol can be found in moleK.JmolScripter.
>>
>> One major issue is that adding moleK to Jmol would introduce a dependency
>> on OpenNI, which hasn't been officially packaged for many (any?)
>> distributions. I'm currently experimenting with packaging OpenNI along
>> with my app, which will hopefully yield me some insight toward solving this
>> problem.
>>
>> As I said above, moleK is far from complete but AFAIK it's the only Free
>> project to link a sensor like the Kinect with a molecular modeler
>> (Molecular Playground perhaps, but I couldn't find their code). I've
>> invested enough time and effort to become quite attached to it and I think
>> it has the potential to add some useful and interesting functionality to
>> Jmol. I begin work on my senior thesis this fall; this project has piqued
>> my interest in gesture-based interaction and I want to explore related
>> topics. My thesis won't be focused on molecular modeling, but I expect
>> that my research efforts will allow me to continue improving this project.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Benn Snyder
>>
>>
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> Chair, Chemistry Department
> St. Olaf College
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>
>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>
>
>
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Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Chemistry Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
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it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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