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From: Passerone, Daniele (Daniele.Passerone_at_empa.ch)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2012 - 09:41:45 CDT

Dear John,

I apologize for my comment. Thank you for the clarification. I also
realize that, indeed, I can live without space navigator.
Your work on VMD is what saves my day, basically every day.

Saluti,
Daniele

On 7/11/12 4:22 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>Hi,
> Mac support for spacenavigator doesn't have zero priority.
>What you may not understand is that some signficant time
>has already been invested on Spacenavigator code for MacOS X.
>The MacOS X Spacenavigator APIs don't work in the same way
>that they do on X-Windows or MS Windows, and they have been
>found to behave badly in some cases. The reason I have left
>this code disabled is because I have not yet found an acceptable
>workaround for these problems.
>
>Cheers,
> John
>
>
>On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:25:37AM +0200, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
>> Dear John,
>> I thank you very much for your answer. I am really sad to see that this
>> particular development has the lowest possible priority (zero).
>> I hope some other users will join me in pushing the priority up! :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/10/12 5:04 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> > At the moment, the state of MacOS support for the spacenavigator is
>> >roughly the same as it was, with the added complication that the new
>> >versions of MacOS X have changed a few things that affect VMD. It is
>> >still on my TODO list, but I don't have an ETA prediction for you due
>> >to all of the other things that are currently higher priority. I would
>> >indeed like to have it supported on MacOS X as it is a very useful
>>input
>> >device.
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> > John Stone
>> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>> >
>> >On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:01:20PM +0200, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
>> >> Ehm... anybody?
>> >> THANK YOU!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 7/3/12 5:08 AM, "Passerone, Daniele" <Daniele.Passerone_at_empa.ch>
>> >>wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Dear Developers
>> >> >About one year ago I read something on this mailing list about the
>> >> >problems of VMD/Macosx with 3d space navigator mouse.
>> >> >I would like to buy one such mouse, but it should be compatible
>>with my
>> >> >main working tool (VMD on Mac).
>> >> >
>> >> >Can you please update me on the situation? This is basically the
>> >> >bottleneck for my purchase?
>> >> >
>> >> >Thank you in advance
>> >> >
>> >> >Daniele Passerone
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >--
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>> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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>>
>
>--
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>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
>University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078