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The tab key and the custom functions use two different mechanisms to send the tab key to an application. Some applications only respond to one or the other. The Tab Key from the menu is the most reliable. You should always use this menu selection when trying to send a Tab key.

Hello loocas, You have to create a keyboard macro in the 3DxWare configuration for XSI. While XSI is running, you have to open the 3DxWare control panel from either the desktop icon, the control panel icon or the Start menu. This brings up a different GUI than the systray icon. Open the Button Confi...

I see. You can't do that. You have to accumulate in a matrix, not the rotation angle value. You have to do something like this (of course you also have to do your usual GL projection/perspective & pushmatrix, popmatrix calls) : Matrix accumulatedTransformation; MakeIdentityMatrix( accumulatedTra...

The link appears to work for me. Where do you end up?

The part jumps? It should only be getting small delta rotation matrices out of glrotatef. How are the rotations being accumulated? You can't accumulate the angle, RX, RY & RZ from the device. You must use those values to create a rotation matrix (glrotatef appears to do that for you). That rotat...

Hello tomkirk, I've never used that function, but reading its doc, it looks like it should work fine. It applies a small rotation delta to the existing transformation. You will have to scale the angle to get something appropriate for degrees. What exactly are you seeing? The rotation should change d...

Hi Stuart, You have a couple of options. 1) Create and distribute a config file for your application that changes the assignment for these buttons to UNDEFINED. This is currently your only option with 3DxInput (TDxInput) the COM API. 2) If you are using the C/C++ SDK (not 3DxInput), you can use the ...

It's a Coke vs. Pepsi thing. People get used to one or the other. There is no difference in capability. Each shape can be used equally as well as the other.

The first commercial product was the Spaceball 1003. 1988. $3500 comes to mind, but my memory may be fading. It quickly fell to less than $2000, where it stood into the early 90's then continued to fall with various models.

You do have to hold the new shaped cap differently than the old ball. Given that, you should actually get better response from the new sensor--it is more precise--it makes more use of the information from your hand. The USB devices also sample your hand and transmit the data at a much higher rate, s...

If the Rapidform executable name changed then the driver won't know what configuration file to use with the new name. If you had a special config file that you were using with the old executable, you may have to reselect that in the 3DxWare GUI.

I don't think the current implementation will repeat keystrokes. We'd have to keep that in mind for a subsequent release.

Hello Jarec,

I doubt you are losing events. I suspect they are just getting handled in some other place than you expect. You might want to run the SpaceMouse code in a separte thread. Make sure that thread isn't also getting the mouse and keyboard data.

Jim
3Dx Software Development

Hi Brian, The jet demo (and all the rest of the apps) work the way they do because we specifically do the math to make that happen rather than the obvious roll, yaw, pitch mathematics. The same mathematics could be done for the real situation of controlling a vehicle in line of sight. It just takes ...

Hi Brian,

I can't see that video

If you have a Windows program that uses a joystick, one of our customers created a driver for the SpaceNavigator that outputs joystick data (here)

Many people are using it. It appears to be relatively stable.

Jim