week in review ---<div><br></div><div>Nevermind what I said last week, I did *not* fix the tablet mouse spasm bug! I did manage to screw up Continuous Grab on MacOS. Thank heavens for version control. Also, the tablet mouse isn't hitting the event queue as hard as before, thanks to a simple test.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Added input fidelity hint to GHOST_System. Each platform's implementation will use this hint to determine how many mouse/tablet events to capture and send to the queue.</div></div><div><br></div>
<div>Set up a Windows build on the ridiculously fast workstation to my left. I followed the win64 build instructions, but without success. The Windows 7 SDK is a supported tool set, correct?</div><div><br></div><div>Finished SpaceNav input conditioning, and now the image on screen exactly matches my hand motions. There's a demo available on the project web site. This and other prototype code is now under version control, filed under "experimental".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Matt urged me to write up design docs for the NDOF system and mouse/pen coalescing (hi-fi). The first document is now online, and the second will be by the time most of you read this.</div><div><br></div>
<div>[<a href="http://invisible-cow.com/blender/soc">invisible-cow.com/blender/soc</a>]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>next week ---</div><div><br></div><div>Fix or revert those Continuous Grab problems, while keeping the surrounding good bits.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Implement the new NDOF event types and feed live SpaceNav input into blender. The low-level details are already handled by the demo/prototype, so this should go quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Try to get ONE operator to respond to the 3D mouse in a reasonable way. The most likely candidate is, of course, navigating the open range of the 3D view.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Clean up detritus from old SpaceNav plugin scheme. 3D mice will work out of the box, without plugins.</div><div><br></div><div>Activate hi-fi events on the Mac, as I intended to do this past week (until I killed the code). People have been wanting to try this out, so I need to deliver.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>snags ---</div><div><br></div><div>The Windows build fail mentioned above. I need to get it working soon, so I can add some Windows goodness to the mix.</div><div><br></div><div>I was having problems getting on IRC from the lab, but today the system admin said "just use a web-based client." Problem solved. See you in #blendercoders!</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>until next week,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike Erwin<br>musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire<br></div>