Dear Squeakkers *,
Been searching around the archives about the use of alternative input devices to navigate around in Squeak and interact with the objects apart from the mouse, but could not find much details information on the mailing lists apart from some old 2004 posts on the UI list and some partially working joystick interpretation.
Before diving into the code, could some-one give a clue where to look for or give me some hint whether it is going to be possible or not? :-)
Interest is founded due the fact I am a Computer Science student doing a Human Computer Interaction course/project at LIACS Leiden University. We would like to build an alternative way on navigating trough 2d/3d, based on a Wii Remote (wiimote) and Wii Balance Board.
We are in our particular evaluating Croquet, which is based on Squeak. But as input device handling seems a more 'low level', the squeak beginners list should be the right place to start :-)
Thanks in advance! /Rick * correct me if I am wrong, but I could not find a Squeak people group nickname anywhere.
Might find these projects of interest - http://edusim3d.com ... this video using wiimote/interactive whiteboard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohaE8qJYuo & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSbYY_3yPM
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Rick van der Zwet rick@wzoeterwoude.net wrote:
Dear Squeakkers *,
Been searching around the archives about the use of alternative input devices to navigate around in Squeak and interact with the objects apart from the mouse, but could not find much details information on the mailing lists apart from some old 2004 posts on the UI list and some partially working joystick interpretation.
Before diving into the code, could some-one give a clue where to look for or give me some hint whether it is going to be possible or not? :-)
Interest is founded due the fact I am a Computer Science student doing a Human Computer Interaction course/project at LIACS Leiden University. We would like to build an alternative way on navigating trough 2d/3d, based on a Wii Remote (wiimote) and Wii Balance Board.
We are in our particular evaluating Croquet, which is based on Squeak. But as input device handling seems a more 'low level', the squeak beginners list should be the right place to start :-)
Thanks in advance! /Rick
- correct me if I am wrong, but I could not find a Squeak people group
nickname anywhere.
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2008/10/29 Rich White rich.lynn.white@gmail.com:
Might find these projects of interest - http://edusim3d.com ... this video using wiimote/interactive whiteboard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohaE8qJYuo & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSbYY_3yPM
Projects looks really cool and can give us some hints on how to send navigation signals trough objects. However there navigation is still based on arrow buttons and does not take the full blown joystick movement into action, which we are looking for :-).
There does not exists a X,Y,Z axis device which for example controls the movement of the avatar. We are looking on ways on translation external events into the squeak environment and convert them into movement.
/Rick
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