I have an old serial Spaceball 4000, and noticed yesterday that the
GLUT demo applications have support for spaceballs in them. How do
they detect the spaceball controller? I've tried connecting mine using
a USB-Serial adapter, in case it 'just works', and it doesn't.
Googling finds nothing much more than patches for older versions, and
the release notes for GLUT 3.7.
Is it possible to use this controller with my mac and GLUT?
GLUT uses the HID manager to discover devices, but also relies on the
class of the device in order to know what to do with it. Likely when
you use a USB-Serial adapter, this information is not available (as it
isn't available via serial and the adapter has it's own class). Thus
your serial spaceball doesn't work.
--
Reality is what, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved for those who try.
David Duncan
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