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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2012 - 09:22:59 CDT
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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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