Proscene HIDevice implementation and mimicking mouse events

markcmitc..

Proscene HIDevice implementation and mimicking mouse events

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

Hi there,

I'm utilising the new release of Proscene for a multitouch application I am working on for a uni project (University of Sydney represent!) which is controlled on a 42" TUIO-enabled multitouch surface.

The new HIDevice class is fantastic and just what I needed, as I can 'feed' the TUIO events directly into camera navigation.

However what I need now is the ability to simulate the CameraProfile mouse controls via TUIO events. So for example, if one TUIO cursor is 'clicked' onto the surface, that simulates a mouse click; and by clicking/dragging over an InteractiveFrame object, you can move it around just like if using a mouse.

I have not found an easy way to do this, and the HIDevice class at the moment only offers methods to feed translation and rotation variables.

Can someone suggest a way for me to access the mouse-specific methods (selecting/dragging an InteractiveFrame, ZOOM ON REGION etc) via TUIO events?

p.s. I love proscene so much, its made my love for Processing even stronger than ever =)

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Mark C Mitchell

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nakednous

Re: Proscene HIDevice implementation and mimicking mouse events

2 years ago

Hi,

Sorry, I didn't notice your question before (btw is there a way to be notified about messages with a particular tag? It would be great!).

I'm afraid that currently there's no built-in mechanism to achieve what you are trying to do. I really gave it some thoughts before beginning its implementation, but there is a huge growing spectrum of HIDevices and I only have a space navigator to test things out (it has two buttons though

) that I ended leaving this functionality for a future release.

Your results are very promising. Could you please give me more details about it? Do you mind if I give a reference to your project? That would be great!

Thanks for your encouraging note

markcmitc..

Re: Re: Proscene HIDevice implementation and mimicking mouse events

2 years ago

Hi nakednous,

I had a feeling you were leaving it for a future implementation — when trawling through your HIDeviceMultiViewer example, I noticed that you store 2 ControlButtons for your SpaceNavigator but don't end up using them anywhere =)

For our project we ended up achieving the interactivity we wanted by some creative manipulation of which object becomes the scene's InteractiveFrame, as well as ripping out the mouseDragged() code from InteractiveFrame and reinterpreting it to work with TUIO cursor events. Because you have implemented the ability for a HIDevice to control the scene's InteractiveFrame, this effectively became the solution to our problem.

And it all works fantastically well. Here is a short video we have made of our project:

The Creators || Audio-reactive touch application

We'll have a website up regarding the project soon which will reveal more about the project than this teaser does =)

And that would be really fantastic if you would like to reference our project. Happy to share any part of our code with you if you're interested in our implementation

nakednous

Re: Proscene HIDevice implementation and mimicking mouse events

2 years ago

Hi Mark,

It looks great! Thanks for sharing it. I will reference your project once the 1.1 release is out (hopefully soon).

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