[vtkusers] Switching interaction input source from mouse to reading from a TCP port?

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:05 AM -0800 bkchng <bkchng at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The reason I'm asking this is because the multi-touch software that
> interfaces with my multi-touch screen sends a series of messages to TCP
> port 3333 (using TUIO protocol) whenever the user interacts with the
> screen. Thus, I'm trying to get VTK to obtain the interaction information
> from that TCP port, rather than from the mouse, but I'm not quite sure
> how to get started (which files to modify etc).

A more general solution would be to write a mouse driver for your platform 
that used the TCP input instead of a conventional mouse to generate button 
and motion events.