[racket] Crowdsourcing Pict3D's design

Maybe simpler: why not just treat the mouse like a joystick? That is, if
you press the mouse down and move it a little to the right and hold it
there, the camera continues to move smoothly until you release.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> I think Mac OS X's official stance on mouse grab (which I mostly
> support personally) is: get a new UI design.
>
> How about: when the snip has the focus, shift and mouse down rotates
> things and normal mouse down just moves the mouse? Then you'd get the
> ability to slide along left and then go back and slide along some
> more. Does something like that work?
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Welp, that's it. Also, you got ninja'd by Jack.
> >
> > I have some ideas. We'll see how they turn out.
> >
> > What I really need is mouse grab, but Racket's GUI framework doesn't
> provide
> > a way to do it.
> >
> > Neil ⊥
> >
> >
> > On 03/10/2015 09:39 PM, Alexander D. Knauth wrote:
> >>
> >> I get that too.
> >>
> >> On Mar 10, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Robby was afraid that might happen on OS X. The weird thing is that I
> >>> don't have reports of it from any other OS X users.
> >>>
> >>> It looks like we'll need alternative input methods for movement as
> well.
> >>> (Turns out that WASD aren't necessarily near each other on all
> keyboards.)
> >>> I'll add this to my input revamp list.
> >>>
> >>> Neil ⊥
> >>>
> >>> On 03/10/2015 07:21 PM, John Clements wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Neil, I'm having a problem on OS X 10.9 where the mouse isn't behaving
> >>>> as I expect. I may have to make a movie of this, but I'm hoping not.
> The
> >>>> short version is this: I can't look around. More specifically:
> >>>> - I run the example program (with the circle of radius 1/2).
> >>>> - I click on the image.
> >>>> - I can move the camera with the keys as expected.
> >>>> - Moving the mouse results in quivering,  but nothing more.  After
> >>>> fiddling with it for about five minutes, I've decided that there might
> >>>> be a "center the mouse" call that's being used to keep the (hidden)
> >>>> mouse cursor in the middle of the window, and that on my mac, at
> least,
> >>>> this centering call is also returning the orientation of the camera to
> >>>> its original location. The result is that I feel like I'm struggling
> >>>> with a malevolent genie; I can make the camera turn just a bit, but no
> >>>> matter how hard I run, I'm pulled back to the same location.
> >>>>
> >>>> Let me know if you want me to make a movie of this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Otherwise: fantastic. Awesome. Fix it so I can show it to all my
> >>>> graphics colleagues.
> >>>>
> >>>> John
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Konrad Hinsen
> >>>> <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net <mailto:konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net>>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     Neil Toronto writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>       > Pict3D is finally ready for public consumption. You can
> install
> >>>> the
> >>>>       > package either in DrRacket using "File -> Install Package..."
> or
> >>>>     from
> >>>>       > the command line using
> >>>>       >
> >>>>       >      raco pkg install pict3d
> >>>>
> >>>>     This looks quite impressive - thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>>     Where can I download some spare hours to play with this?  ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>>     Konrad.
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