Crocket: Some assorted comments

Diego Gomez Deck DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com
Sun Nov 10 11:20:27 UTC 2002


Hi Crocketers!

First of all: Crocket is *really* great!

Thank you very much for the work!!!  This type of projects increase the dreamming capacity of everybody!


I was playing a little bit with crocket togethers with my son.  He's 5 years old and he realize really fast how to use crocket.  He discovered for himself how to move, rotate and size the windows, etc.  The only "problem" he found is when he pressed middle button (in a windows box) and the morph was selected and moved.


To me, the mouse is too 2d to be used in a 3d environment.  I was reading a little bit the Direct-Input API to create support for most "modern" (?) devices as Josyticks with 3 axes, force feedback, etc.  For example: I have one joystick from M$ specialized for "flight simulator" type OF games and it looks interesting to be tried in crocket.


Other small "improvement" is to use the mouse wheel to rotate objects, move in Y axe, etc.


Cheers,

Diego Gomez Deck

PS: Please don't stop!




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