[Bf-taskforce25] Feedback needed: mapping tablet, mouse, devices

[Diego Hernan Borghetti]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1) Tablet mapping
>
> I'm not a tablet user... not sure how many options you have for a pen
> click. Currently the tablet event is registered as-such, but I can
> imagine you want tablet events to map to mouse clicks. Or do we leave
> this to the tablet drivers to handle?
>
> 2) Mouse mapping
>
> To efficiently make use of user configs for left/right mouse
> especially, we should prevent this to happen in all cases. A
> keymap/handler definition therefore should use these defines if you
> intend this to be user-defined:
>
> KM_ACTION_MOUSE
> KM_SELECT_MOUSE
>
> And have those translated to left/right mouse based on the user preset.
>
> 3) Laptops / multi-touch
>
> Modern laptops don't have mouse buttons anymore even, like Apple's
> multi-touch track pad which allows to map LMB or RMB, but have
> possibilities to track 3, 4 fingers as well. It generates even scroll
> or zoom events. Would be cool to have a good standard mapping system in
> Blender, to make it integrate well with regular mouse input.

I don't know about Apple's, but in Linux this is handle by the
driver, like Tablet, the driver map the touchpad event to
mouse event.

>
> 4) Simpler mouse support
>
> How will we support one- or two-button mice (laptops)? The current
> mapping gives conflicts with hotkeys in cases, will need some
> experimenting.
>
> 5) Trackballs, 3DOF devices
>
> Same goes for other devices... can we efficiently remap such input to
> standard Blender handlers, or will those become custom (user defined)
> ones?
>
> -Ton-
>
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 			Diego