[Paraview] Using VR-Style input devices

[Johannes Zarl]

On Wednesday 24 October 2012 17:01:37 Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> The way it works now is that you create a connection manager (lines
> 475 - 483), which will be generated by the GUI if used, and then for
> the styles,
> you would link it with the ID of the proxy and its specific property
> that you want to control. Now said that the GUI shows you the name of
> the proxy and not the ID
> for obvious reasons. Then depending upon the type of the proxy and
> property you specify a particular input from a HCI device. Currently
> we support analog, button, and tracker.
> 
> The wiki here is bit old:
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/CAVE_Display

Yes, I noticed. Together with the information in a thread on this list
(http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2012-July/025507.html), it was 
quite valuable, though...

> We wrote a source article as well:
> http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/66

Thanks, I didn't see that before.

> 
> This recent work is not in master yet (hopefully this Friday) but you
> can checkout this branch: vtk_vr_improvements_new_gui
> if you want to from paraview stage repository. The branch contains
> bunch of bug fixes, and API improvements.

That's great news -- I wasn't aware that the GUI work is this close to 
entering master. The screenshot looks promising. I will definitely try it out 
next week.

Thanks,
  Johannes