[Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

OH; forgot for point 1)
Just make it point to an allocated struct, that way things don't get  
saved in files.

-Ton-

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 1 Jan, 2011, at 17:12, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Good news!
>
> 1) That's Ok for now, but mark it with /* XXX hack */ to point at that
> this is potentially wip stuff. Making a struct would be nice too,
> probably each float has a real meaning, that makes the code readable.
>
> 2) If aligning fails, always add variables with a name like "pad". In
> your case a single "int pad;" is sufficient
>
> General note: in 2.49 the code for ndof was spread all around, with
> exception handling for tools and view manipulations. We really don't
> want this back, but have the NDOF device deliver nice and well defined
> events instead. These then can become keymappable.
>
> In order to have a NDOF device work *while* using tools (paint, rotate
> view), we need to add still a parallel queue handling in Blender.
> Multitouch devices need this too, and there's already been some work
> on it. I'd advice to not try this for now, I rather have this work
> done after we've put wm_eventsystem.c completely in sane design.
> There's too many loose ends there now. :)
>
> -Ton-
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org     
> www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
> Netherlands
>
> On 1 Jan, 2011, at 14:54, Rafael Ortis wrote:
>
>> I am working on a patch to restore 3d Connexion ndof feature in
>> blender 2.5.
>>
>> My patch is based on the 2.49b version and right now i have been able
>> to restore  only the original mode. The other limitation is that
>> blender will only seek for the "3DxNdofBlender.plug" in the current
>> installation folder and not in the user's ~./blender/plugins folder.
>>
>> Since I'm really new to blender code i have some questions:
>>
>> 1. In version 2.49b the last known ndof device state was on window
>> struct :
>> ...
>> float   ndof[7];
>> ...
>>
>> I have placed this in wmWindow. Was this the right place?
>>
>> 2. This modification in wmWindow breaks the alignment of the struct  
>> so
>> i have added a 4 bytes with:
>>
>> short ndofAlign[2];
>>
>> Is this OK?
>>
>>
>> I'm using:
>>
>> Linux (Ubuntu 10.10)
>> gcc version: (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
>> 3DConnexion device: Space Navigator
>> 3DConnexion driver: 3DConnecion linux version
>>
>> Happy new year!!!
>>
>> att.
>> Rafael Ortis
>> <patch.txt>_______________________________________________
>> Bf-committers mailing list
>> Bf-committers at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-committers mailing list
> Bf-committers at blender.org
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers