[Paraview] ParaView 3.98.1: Problems with Space Navigator

[David Lonie]

I just remembered this patch where Cory had rewritten the GrabWorld
style for the space navigator:

http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/8374/

Nenad: If you get a chance to try it, please let us know (better yet,
make an account on the review board and leave feedback there, if you
have time. Otherwise an email to the list will do).

Cory: I +1'd these patch, but they seem to have been forgotten. Are
you still interested in contributing them? Can you rebase them against
current master and see if they still work?

Dave

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nenad Vujicic <nenadus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Dave, Aashish,
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> I put logging calls to routines of above 2 classes (vtkVRGrabWorldStyle and
> pqVRPNConnection) and I started catching messages on both places. Now, looks
> like the problem is that current interaction styles don't like my device
> (most likely because of reason Aashish mentioned). I'll dig into these
> classes and try to fix them or create new interaction style. Then, someone
> from the team will submit the patch.
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> Best regards,
> Nenad.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> One another possibility could be is that SN does not really offer tracker
>> and we are expecting tracker data so the code
>> somewhere is broke.
>>
>> Can you create a new interactor style and just listen for buttons and
>> analogs?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:38 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Nenad Vujicic <nenadus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Dear Dave,
>>> >
>>> > Thank you for your ideas. Unfortunately, there are no errors / warnings
>>> > emitted during startup or while running ParaView. Also, I tried several
>>> > times with restarting ParaView and always checked if listening is
>>> > started
>>> > (i.e. Start button is disabled and Stop is enabled). I even turned off
>>> > my
>>> > firewall, but nothing helped.
>>> >
>>> > Btw, when I put some logging calls to pqVRStarter.cxx Ln 56 (beginning
>>> > of
>>> > pqVREventPlayer::playEvent() routine), I didn't get any message (during
>>> > my
>>> > trying to work with 3d mouse). Of course, pqVREventPlayer class
>>> > definition
>>> > is enabled (because PARAVIEW_USE_VRPN is turned ON). Did I maybe need
>>> > to
>>> > enable some special flag during compilation of Qt to get this event
>>> > playing
>>> > working or this is used only during automated testing?
>>>
>>> That was only for automated testing. If you want to debug this, try
>>> putting some debugging messages in
>>>
>>> vtkVRGrabWorldStyle.cxx: HandleTracker() and HandleButton()
>>> pqVRPNConnection.cxx: newButtonValue() and new TrackerValue()
>>>
>>> The first one is the style where the events from the vrpn are
>>> translated into camera events, and the second file will check that the
>>> events are coming in from VRPN correctly.
>>>
>>> Did ParaView/VRPN work on this machine in the past? AFAIK no one else
>>> has tried this on Windows 8 yet.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> | Aashish Chaudhary
>> | R&D Engineer
>> | Kitware Inc.
>> | www.kitware.com
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