new input control

[intra]

   Hi,

   I’m new to Crystal Space. My intention is to use virtual gloves as input control. I’ve been reading a bit about Crystal programming and still I have to dedicate it more time, but if you could orientate me it would be very helpful to me.

   What I have to do? an input driver or a plugin?
   Where can I find information about it?

   Thanks in advance,

   John

[sunshine]

There is no dinstinction between drivers and plugins in Crystal Space. The typical way to extend CS is to create a plugin module. Your plugin's primary job will be to query the glove's state and then post that state to the CS event queue. You probably want to look at iEventQueue, iEventOutlet, and iEvent (see the API documentation at http://www.crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/api). How you actually query the device for state depends upon the context. You may want to poll the device each time through the CS run-loop, or you may want to spawn a thread which watches the device, and then posts CS events as the device state changes.

[tek911]

Intra, I am actually looking to do exactly what you're looking to code up. I want to use data gloves inside of a 3d environment (im new to crystalspace3d so there will be a learning curve there as well), care to collaborate? Shoot me an email and maybe we can talk on an IM or something.