From: John F. F. <joh...@cy...> - 2009-11-30 04:12:08
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I can't seem to find it in the tracker. My list of bugs skips from 2833680 to 2839333. Any ideas? - John At 09:02 PM 11/29/2009, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:56:20AM +0800, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote: > > Hi both John's, > > > > I just came across bug 2837608 in the tracker, it seems to also be a > > spaceball implementation. Maybe you could look at it to see if there > > is anything in there that can still be used in the current freeglut > > implementation. > >There's no patch, so it's more difficult to pick out the changes, but it >seems to implement the spaceball callbacks on windows and linux. > >I can only talk about the inux implementation, as I'm not familliar with >using spaceball devices on windows. The problem with his implementation >is that it uses the 3Dconnexion SDK to talk to the device (aka the >magellan API, grep for stuff beginning with "Magellan"), which sadly is >not free software. Adding a dependency to proprietary vendor libraries >to freeglut is obviously not a good idea :) > >About the windows implementation, I see some weird SiSomethingOrOther >calls in there which I suspect would also add dependencies to >3Dconnexion's SDK for windows. If that's the case, then I think the >windows implementation is also equally useless for freeglut. >Still, somebody with windows should try to figure out if that's the case >or not. If we can use it, then having spaceball support on windows too >would be great. > >-- >John Tsiombikas >http://nuclear.sdf-eu.org/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >_______________________________________________ >Freeglut-developer mailing list >Fre...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freeglut-developer |