control motor with 3Dnavigation

baoqger · Post by **baoqger** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:42 pm

My application is totally different from other developers'. I have a manipulation stage driven by motors, and the stage can move in three direction X Y Z. The stage has a joystick but It has only two directions to move. So I want to use the 3D Mouse-3D navigator to control the stage in nature way with X Y Z directions as first step, if possible I will extend the function to rotation.
So in fact my application do not need a graphic windows. A console appliction is enough. So is it possible and how to let a console application get raw input message? Are there some examples before?

Thanks very much!
baoqger

Post by **jwick** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:13 am

Raw Input requires a window, but that window doesn't have to do anything. It may not even need to be displayed. You just want the message loop. You can also use HID, but that is much more code to write.