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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2012 - 09:22:59 CDT

Hi,
  Mac support for spacenavigator doesn't have zero priority.
What you may not understand is that some signficant time
has already been invested on Spacenavigator code for MacOS X.
The MacOS X Spacenavigator APIs don't work in the same way
that they do on X-Windows or MS Windows, and they have been
found to behave badly in some cases. The reason I have left
this code disabled is because I have not yet found an acceptable
workaround for these problems.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:25:37AM +0200, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
> Dear John,
> I thank you very much for your answer. I am really sad to see that this
> particular development has the lowest possible priority (zero).
> I hope some other users will join me in pushing the priority up! :-)
>
>
>
> On 7/10/12 5:04 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > At the moment, the state of MacOS support for the spacenavigator is
> >roughly the same as it was, with the added complication that the new
> >versions of MacOS X have changed a few things that affect VMD. It is
> >still on my TODO list, but I don't have an ETA prediction for you due
> >to all of the other things that are currently higher priority. I would
> >indeed like to have it supported on MacOS X as it is a very useful input
> >device.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:01:20PM +0200, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
> >> Ehm... anybody?
> >> THANK YOU!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/3/12 5:08 AM, "Passerone, Daniele" <Daniele.Passerone_at_empa.ch>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> >Dear Developers
> >> >About one year ago I read something on this mailing list about the
> >> >problems of VMD/Macosx with 3d space navigator mouse.
> >> >I would like to buy one such mouse, but it should be compatible with my
> >> >main working tool (VMD on Mac).
> >> >
> >> >Can you please update me on the situation? This is basically the
> >> >bottleneck for my purchase?
> >> >
> >> >Thank you in advance
> >> >
> >> >Daniele Passerone
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >--
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> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
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> 

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/       Fax: 217-244-6078