[Interest] SpaceNavigator 3D input device support

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Apr 7 09:44:59 CEST 2015


On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, Christian Gagneraud wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Is anyone aware of a Qt based lib that would provide support for devices
> like the SpaceNavigator? [1]
>
> I'm aware of at least one Qt based app (FreeCAD [2]) that works on
> Linux, OS X and Windows and which has support for this device. I had a
> look at the source code, it is not that complicated [3], but there's lot
> of boilerplate for multi-platform support.
>
> So i just wondered if someone out there has a nice Qt lib that is easy
> to integrate into existing projects or even better a Qt input plugin?
>

Hm, the space navigator support code in Calligra doesn't have any platform 
boilerplate, but whether that means it works on Windows, I don't know -- 
all our space navigators have disappeared in the mists of time.


> Thx,
> Chris
>
> [1] http://www.3dconnexion.eu/products/spacemouse/spacenavigator.html
> [2] http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=3Dconnexion_input_devices
> [3]
> https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD_sf_master/blob/master/src/Gui/GuiApplicationNativeEventAware.h
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