[Bf-committers] NDOF input devices generalization

sfogoros sfogoros at att.net
Mon Mar 3 23:13:44 CET 2008


I can help test starting in two weeks or so. Just let me know where to 
download source, etc. You are welcome to email me directly with 
attachment as we have corresponded before.

By the way, I will compile with MSVC Community Edition. It is missing 
some STL libraries that cause compile failure with USB drivers and maybe 
other stuff. I believe Community Edition is still a supported dev 
platform so I'll be glad to help demonstrate platform compatibility and 
provide feedback.

Steve F.

Ettore Pasquini wrote:
> Hello Jean-Luc,
> 
> I hope your recovery is proceeding smoothly :)
> I wanted to touch base with you about the NDOF efforts.
> We at 3Dconnexion would really love to see our devices supported in an
> official Blender release, that would be our ultimate goal.
> 
> We understand that in order to do that, we'd need to provide in our solution
> support for generic NDOF devices including ours and other joysticks, hence
> removing links to our drivers in the plugins.
> 
> I think you mentioned in the past that you had done some (or were thinking
> to do)  work for this device generalization effort: I was curious to know
> what's the status of that project.  In fact, I also have developed in the
> last few months a cross-platform open source (BSD) library that abstracts
> out a generic NDOF device abstraction.  My main objective was to provide a
> uniform API for application developers so that the device, whatever it is,
> it's dealt with using the same calls.  This library sits on top of standard
> OS frameworks (HID on OS X, DirectX on Windows) with no dependencies on our
> proprietary drivers.   It's not thoroughly tested and it could be improved,
> however it seems to work quite well on Windows and OSX.  I still have to
> code the Linux version.
> 
> Please let me know what's the status of the device generalization project
> and how  I can help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ettore
>  
> 


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