<div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Neil Toronto <<a href="mailto:neil.toronto@gmail.com">neil.toronto@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:neil.toronto@gmail.com">neil.toronto@gmail.com</a>> 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 >>>> <<a href="mailto:konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net">konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net">konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net</a>>> 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. >>>> ____________________ >>>> Racket Users list: >>>> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ____________________ >>>> Racket Users list: >>>> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >>>> >>> >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> >> >> > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>