[IGSTK-Users] Polaris tracker example and FLTK compilation problem under .NET 2003

[Elvis Chen]

greetings,

I am encountering 2 problems with IGSTK currently, I seek your help:

1) I've got IGSTK release-7 compiled under linux with VTK-5.1/ITK-CVS 
(2006-04-25).  Using the example code igstkPolarisTrackerTest.cxx, I wrote a 
small polaris code to see if I can initialize the Polaris tracker and get a 
pose information of a passive target.  The test code I have is basically the 
same as igstkPolarisTrackerTest.cxx, but without the logger and other things 
I don't really need.

I used the following line to associate a passive ROM file to the polaris:

tracker->AttachSROMFileNameToPort( port, "TA104.rom" );

things I discovered are:

a) the port number has to be greater than 2.  If I use port number 0,1, or 
2, the tracker won't see the target.
b) using port number greater then 2, the tracker can see the target, but all 
the transformation I get back (position/rotation) are zero.

I've searched the documentation on the igstk.org and looked through the 
example codes.  What I'm not clear about is exactly what does a trackerTool 
class does?  In the igstkPolarisTrackerTest.cpp, a "tool" of type 
PolarisTrackerTool is created but it isn't been used with anything.  Can 
anyone clearify if I need a trackerTool to obtain the transformation of the 
target?

2) I've spent countless hours in trying to compile IGSTK under Windows XP 
with .NET 2003.  VTK/ITK (the same source as my linux) compiled fine, but 
FLTK refused to.  It actually compiled all the source files into object 
files but refused to work under the linking stage.  According to fltk.org 
this is due to a bad .sln (solution file for .net) on their part, and no fix 
was given.  I've tried several fltk versions from fltk.org but all end up 
with the same problem.

I used cmake to configure the fltk source code and then load the solution 
file in .net 2003/VC7 to compile.

Has anyone got fltk/IGSTK to compile with .NET 2003/VC7?

any help is very much appreciated,