Hi all,
with Open Inventor there is already a class included, that
supports Spaceball input (SoXtSpaceball). In the course of a uni
project I am doing, I wrote a similar class to support the Spaceorb.
This might be interesting for some people, since the Spaceorb is
much cheaper and thus more affordable for many people.
This device class I wrote uses the XFree86 spaceorb driver (also
revised by me), which is already included in the XFree CVS repository
and will most probably be included in future binary distributions.
However this would make the use of SoXtSpaceorb restricted to the
Linux platform.
SoXtSpaceorb has the same interface as SoXtSpaceball and worked fine
with the demos for the latter. Just the classname had to be replaced.
I also wrote some additional methods to include null-region support.
Is there any interest to include my code in the Open Inventor repository?
Then I could e-mail it to you. I know that it could be problem, that
the code doesn't work for IRIX, however if there's a Spaceorb driver
for IRIX X somebody could include it or make the code architecture-
sensitive so that the exists() method always returns FALSE for IRIX.
Cheers,
Guido
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