Hi Jost, I think support for the SpaceNavigator would be welcome, but the final decision belongs to Wayne. If you decide to develop support for the SpaceNavigator, please do not make spacenav library a dependency for KiCad.
Regards, Orson On 05/15/2017 07:10 PM, mrkenhoff wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I would like to add support for the SpaceNavigator 3D mouse if nobody > objects. > Being able to pan around the schematic or pcb canvas while keeping your > other hand busy doing the "real work" might improve the ergonomics and > efficiency of KiCad. To avoid having to constantly move your hand to the > keyboard for shortcuts, the two commonly used tools should be > user-assigneable to the buttons on the mouse. I dont know how much of an > improvement a 3D mouse will yield in a 2D application like KiCad, but > since I expect the implementation to be quite straight forward I would > like to give it a try. > > Speaking of implementation, this is what I thought of: > The "spacenav" library provides a simple API to communicate with the 3D > mouse. It's the open source (GPL3) alternative for the proprietary > library provided by 3Dconnexion (The manufacturer of the SpaceNavigator). > The only problem I see is operating system portability: The spacenav > library is only available for Linux right now. Windows and OSX would > still depend on the proprietary library (Same API by the way). There > must be a possibility to get around that, since the open source software > Blender supports the SpaceNavigator mouse on all operating systems. I > will take a look at their implementation later. > > I would like to hear any comments regarding my idea and whether or not > you think 3D mouse support would be a usefull improvement for KiCad. > > So far for now.. > Jost > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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