[Openmcl-devel] opengl rubix example

[Hamilton Link]

I'm not using GLUT to handle keyboard or mouse events, I'm using 
NSOpenGLView for display, which inherits NSView's handling of events.

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, your single-button mouse 
won't work. #$NSRightMouseDragged and kin, as far as I can tell, 
require right-clicking... in other words, use a multi-button mouse's 
right button.

Ranting aside (I *hate* apple's policy of shipping landfill-caliber 
one-button mice with their systems and giving me only one laptop mouse 
button), er, d'oh...

Ranting aside, the OS doesn't give NSRightMouse-anything to an app when 
ctrl-clicking with a single button, it still gives left mouse events 
with modifiers. I haven't actually written the little bits of code into 
the rubix example to check for modifiers on the left-mouse button (the 
"only" mouse button), and probably won't, because I assume that a large 
fraction of Apple's consumer population buys real mice.

As a side note: Yes, this does mean that every apple program that 
handles ctrl-click as right-click has to be specifically coded to do 
so.

h

On May 2, 2005, at 3:47 PM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote:

> What set of modifiers do you think right-click requires? I assume 
> command-click? I tried all the possible combinations and nothing seems 
> to work. FWIW I found a post that seems to imply that GLUT may have 
> it's own idea of these mappings.
>
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2002/Sep/msg00105.html
>
> I have no idea why my system would be different that yours.
>
> Best,
>
> leb
>
>
> At 1:36 PM -0600 5/2/05, Hamilton Link wrote:
>> Have you tried to right-click/drag on the faces? The initial solved 
>> cube will look like it has solid faces, yeah. But the six faces will 
>> rotate independently. Possibly a screen shot is in order...
>>
>>
>> Attachment converted: std:openmcl-opengl-rubix.tiff (TIFF/GKON) 
>> (00241126)
>>
>> I've thought about making it more perfectly rubix-cubelike but it 
>> wasn't worth the effort, getting quaternions and picking & selection 
>> etc in an NSOpenGLView were the objectives.
>>
>> And yes, there was only one tiny little change, in blocks.lisp
>>
>> h
>>
>> On May 2, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hamilton,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure it's still working right on my laptop. I assume I am 
>>> supposed to see an array of 3x3 squares on each face of the cube? I 
>>> don't see that I see 6 solid color faces.
>>>
>>> Also, you only changed the file "blocks.lisp", correct? CVS showed 
>>> the other files all 9 months old.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> leb
>>>
>>> At 11:24 AM -0600 5/2/05, Hamilton Link wrote:
>>>> In the process of toying with the idea of making stand-alone-app 
>>>> versions of the two opengl examples, I discovered that the rubix 
>>>> cube example had a picking and selection bug. It now works 
>>>> properly. Left-mouse/drag will rotate the cube, and 
>>>> right-mouse/drag on a face will turn a face clockwise or ccw.
>>>>
>>>> The bug made right-mousing do picking and selection in the viewable 
>>>> buffer for some reason (and never switch the camera back), so if 
>>>> you tried it before and wondered if it was working properly, no it 
>>>> wasn't.
>>>>
>>>> h
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lawrence E. Bakst
>>> leb at iridescent.org
>
>
> -- 
> Lawrence E. Bakst
> leb at iridescent.org