[Bf-committers] supporting input devices on blender.

[Glauber Prado]

Hi i was thinking this could be a good solution for all your input 
devices problems but maybe im wrong, might worth take a look, as it isnt 
something  that excels at being complicated:

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/application-areas.html



Campbell Barton wrote:

>Ettore Pasquini wrote:
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>>On 5/18/07 3:39 AM, "Jean-Luc Peurière" <jlp at nerim.net> wrote:
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>>>Unfortunately the license agreement they request for using their SDK
>>>is not and cannot be make GPL compatible.
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>>/cut/
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>>>So who would be interest to tackle with me this, and add HID support
>>>on all 3 major OS we support (Windows, linux, Os X) ? once we support
>>>those, adding support for the other unices should be straightforward.
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>>Hi Jean-Luc,
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>>I work for 3Dconnexion and I am currently working on adding support to
>>Blender for our 6DOF devices. I am definitively interested!
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>>Let me first say that the license of our SDK has just changed (1 hour ago).
>>The new license (see below) allows redistribution of the SDK. One reason for
>>us to change the license was to make it possible to work with Blender, so
>>hopefully that's fixed now. In any case, if there are any legal problems
>>with the license we can work things out to solve them. Just let me know... :-)
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>>"My" current implementation uses the new SDK and it works (more or less) on
>>Windows. I started coding the Mac solution as well. The advantage for using
>>the SDK is that it makes things easier to implement. I modified the patch
>>available from the projects site, consisting in a few device-independent
>>wrapper extensions to GHOST and a dlopen'ed plugin with device-specific,
>>platform-specific code. All SDK calls are contained inside the plugin,
>>eventually allowing other plugins to be used. Just to make clear we are not
>>locked in with 3Dconnexion only support using this architecture.
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>>Adding HID/DirectInput/Xinput support is not excluded by this implementation
>>either, it's just much longer to implement. Our objective is to have
>>something going quickly and it would be great if we could do that.
>>Eventually, once HID support is ready we could scope out the SDK plugin if
>>we want that.
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>>Ettore
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>Hi Ettore
>Which OS's is this SDK available for? - Im interested in Linux support, 
>Im guessing it supports Windows and OSX already.
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>regarding serial port devices, even though I have one, Id be happy to 
>get a USB-HID or 3Dconnexion device if it runs well with Blender.
>Supporting one vendors SDK seems limiting but Im not that fussed.
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>I assume adding some licence info to the splash screen when clicking on 
>the Help/About will be ok.
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