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by darvaru
Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:35 am
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question
Replies: 7
Views: 15277

I belive i can call it a success :) I've used portions of HIDRezero for detecting the Spacepilot and getting the device path & handle. Now im implementing the display function which is pretty easy knowing what to do. As a funny thing the leds are 4 grouped as 2 and can be litten individually (th...
by darvaru
Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:24 pm
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question
Replies: 7
Views: 15277

You can just WriteFile to it. I'll give it a try now that I'm home. [qoute]It's pretty slow. The key (and the difficulty) is to only update the part of the LCD that you change. You can set the start position for drawing to limit the amount of the LCD that you draw. I spent a lot of time optimizing ...
by darvaru
Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:04 am
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question
Replies: 7
Views: 15277

Thanks for your understanding and quick response. I belive that you are reffering to this post http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1095 Ok, i've understood the display layout and the commands and data to be sent, but I'm still in the proverbial "fog" since I do not see what AP...
by darvaru
Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:07 am
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question
Replies: 7
Views: 15277

Hi jwick. For starters one idea could be a process monitor / uptime / clock / network load / memory & disk monitor / a winamp visualisation plugin (i doubt about that since i've observed that the LCD has high latency, but i may be wrong) .... you name it.. anything usefull that can be displayed ...
by darvaru
Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:55 pm
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question
Replies: 7
Views: 15277

Spacepilot - to recycle it or not - this is the question

Hi there. I own a Spacepilot device but i don't use any 3D modeling software, no software that is supported or was supported by you (3DConnexion). It has nice buttons a cool LCD Display but other than that with the current drivers and software it is purely useless. Since I am a programmer (in my fre...