naiming@eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) (06/25/91)
Does the IRIS power series 310 support joysticks? if it does, what kind of interface connection it uses? what about the software driver? and the joysticks? Thanks in advance. -- ***************************************************************************** Naiming Shen naiming@bagend.eng.umd.edu *****************************************************************************
marks@AIVAX.RADC.AF.MIL (David Marks) (06/25/91)
I am in the process of interfacing a 3D joystick to our 340VGX. It has a RS232 interface. So far, I have been able to read its X, Y, Z and button reports with no problem ( except the initial setup - 8bit no parity, ARGH). Right now, I'm in the midst of getting a gl driver working so we can use it like any other available gl device. The driver is based on the tabletd.c driver which used to be found in ~4Dgifts/examples/... in previous releases. It seems to work OK, reading the reports and calling gl_changedevice() to tell gl about the changed device state. However, the application I've modified to work with the joystick (~4Dgifts/.../paint.c) doesn't read the events reliably. Its a back-burner project which I haven't touched in 3 weeks, and won't again for another 1 or 2, but if you have any questions regarding what I have accomplished, ask away. If I get it working, I'll let you know. Dave Marks Rome Laboratory marks@aivax.radc.af.mil