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From: Madaras Erzsébet (madaras.k.e_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 06 2016 - 04:12:40 CST

Dear John,

Thank you so much for your help. We finally managed to get vmd running.

Cheers,
Liz

2016-11-28 8:42 GMT+01:00 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:

> Hi,
> Sorry for the delayed reply, I was out of town and I'm still catching
> up on a large pile of emails in my inbox.
>
> The MacOS X builds of VMD don't currently support the SpaceNavigator due
> to the way the Mac drivers interact with applications (as of the last time
> I checked their SDK). It is useful to know that you have it working with
> Blender, as it is conceivable that they have found a way around the
> same issue that prevented me from implementing it in VMD originally,
> or at least I would have another implementation to compare against.
> That being said, this is something that won't be dealt with until
> a subsequent release after VMD 1.9.3, so I appreciate your patience.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:45:27AM +0900, Fernando Vallejos-Burgos wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > It seems it is a recurrent question, but all the answers I found are
> from
> > few years ago and didn't work for me:
> > We recently acquired a 3Dconnexion Spacenavigator to use in VMD, but
> it
> > doesna**t work.
> > I found in the VMD website
> > ([1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/spaceball/)
> that
> > these "devices are automatically detected and supported on all of the
> VMD
> > platformsa**.
> > However, my VMD do nothing, I was trying inside the Display window,
> and
> > tried all mouse modes.
> > Also, nothing appears in the console when I move or when I push
> buttons.
> > I tested both in VMD 1.9.2 and 1.9.3beta.
> > Ia**m running OSX 10.12.1 Sierra and the latest versions of both
> > SpaceNavigator (4.36) and 3DxWare (10.4.2).
> > BTW, I tested another application (Blender) and it recognized the
> hardware
> > immediately.
> > Is there any solution or can anyone tell me what Ia**m doing wrong
> > (perhaps some environment setting?)?
> > Thanks a lot!
> > NANDO---
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/spaceball/
>
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