Nat,
The short answer to your question is yes. I have developed
a small python driver and an extension to pymol that allows
you to use any USB input device as a 3D controller.
It works with any USB device that generates events on
/dev/input/event*
I have also a torsion function that you can use to change
dihedrals interactively on any amino acid using your altrnate 3D
input device.
In my opinion the best input device for this is a trackball
with many buttons (Kensington Expert Mouse Pro Trackball).
This model has a scroll wheel that you can configure to change
rotamers of the currently Pk1 selection if you scroll it while
keeping the scroll wheel pressed.
Check my webpage for details:
http://atb.slac.stanford.edu/~zac/pymol/
Cheers,
Zac
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Nat Echols wrote:
|
| I'm very curious about this dial all of a sudden - I just started doing
| refinements, and I'd love to use my laptop as much as possible instead of
| our slow old SGIs. Has anyone used it on Linux? How's it work with O?
| Could it theoretically be programmed to, say, flip through rotamer
| libraries or tweak torsion angles in PyMOL, with some additions to the
| Python layer? $40 isn't a lot of it's a decent partial replacement for
| SGI dial boxes.
|
| thanks,
| Nat
|
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