I've done some additional research since my last thread since it got no replies from the developers. So, it seems that the developers have changed tracks since Beta 16, and version 18, the current release version, intentionally had all mouse and joystick emulation ability removed. Furthermore, from what I've gathered, this is a feature-set that isn't going to be developed any further, and as such has been permanently dropped. There's really nothing I can do to change that except post a few negative reviews, which won't accomplish that much anyway.
However, I do have a question, was there any particular reason for this? Why was the decision made to drop a feature-set that, seemingly, was already developed and functional from the release drivers? It seems like that would have taken more effort than to simply leave it in, so there must have been some fundamental flaw with the system that I just didn't notice.
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I can't answer any of those questions...but what I can tell you is that just the GUI was removed. The GUI is just an XML file editor. If you want to edit the XML files yourself, you can still do everything you want to do. Notepad is your friend.
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Interesting! So the current driver does still support keyboard and joystick emulation? Thanks for the info jwick.jwick wrote:I can't answer any of those questions...but what I can tell you is that just the GUI was removed. The GUI is just an XML file editor. If you want to edit the XML files yourself, you can still do everything you want to do. Notepad is your friend.
Do you happen to know where those XML files are stored?
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Heh, I just dusted off my old SpaceNavigator 3d, and wondered where the profile manager mentioned on the forums went to :)
I assume this is what used to be 3DxConfig.exe?
Btw., config files on windows seem to be in %APPDATA%\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg, I think :)
The templates live in C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\3DxWinCore64\Cfg
They could work a lot on user experience here, first I have to figure out that the fancy driver (3DxWare instead of 3DxSoftware) is hidden under the wireless SpaceNavigator driver page, then you have to figure out the profile manager dissapeared and you need to edit profiles manually :)
Hmm, I could probably easily put together a little Java program for that, anyone interested? ;)
I assume this is what used to be 3DxConfig.exe?
Btw., config files on windows seem to be in %APPDATA%\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg, I think :)
The templates live in C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\3DxWinCore64\Cfg
They could work a lot on user experience here, first I have to figure out that the fancy driver (3DxWare instead of 3DxSoftware) is hidden under the wireless SpaceNavigator driver page, then you have to figure out the profile manager dissapeared and you need to edit profiles manually :)
Hmm, I could probably easily put together a little Java program for that, anyone interested? ;)