On 27/10/2015 2:35 PM, santiago gil wrote: > Well, I haven't built the device yet, I'm trying to figure out what my > options will be. In the case of plugging in a simple USB trackball, I > suppose it can work with the HID Manager in Mac to customize the signal > from it. > > In general, would it be possible to manipulate the plot, say for > example, with a standard joystick? Is there something "deeper" in the > code that I could look towards to make this possible? Or any other > library that might support something like this?
I've already answered this below. Duncan Murdoch > > 2015-10-27 14:17 GMT-04:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>>: > > On 27/10/2015 1:38 PM, santiago gil wrote: > > Hello R, > > I'm trying to figure out if it would be possible use a device > (maybe simply > a trackball) separate from the mouse that would have the ability > to rotate > a 3D plot made with rgl without any buttons. This is to build an > interactive "demo"-like piece for which a mouse or trackpad is an > unsatisfactory manipulation tool. The worse solution would be to > make the > trackpad button "sticky" so that it works as a rotation on/off > toggle. > Anything that is less intrusive with the computer's operability > is even > better. I couldn't find the right way in par3d or anything of > the sort. Any > tips anybody? Or any other libraries to would use to do > something like this? > > > Do you know how to get input from that device? If so, you can > explicitly set par3d("userMatrix") to a rotation > matrix based on the input. > > rgl itself has no support for getting input from anything other than > the mouse and keyboard. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/gil/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
