[Paraview] ParaView 3.98.1: Problems with Space Navigator

[Nenad Vujicic]

Dear Dave,

Thank you very much for the patch's link.

I've just tried it with v3.98.1 release sources and after I made very small
change in it, SpaceNavigator started working perfectly! Patch referenced
NeedsAnalog (vtkVRSpaceNavigatorGrabWorldStyle.cxx Ln 55) and AnalogName
properties (vtkVRSpaceNavigatorGrabWorldStyle.cxx Ln 71-78) which are not
available anymore directly. After I masked off these lines, everything
started working great.

I posted review to http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/8374/ too. I
haven't tested with current master repository sources, but I believe they
should work fine too (after above changes are applied), because there were
no larger changes as I saw.

Thanks,
Nenad.



On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:25 PM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
wrote:
>
> 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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> >> --
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> >> | R&D Engineer
> >> | Kitware Inc.
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