Space Navigator PE Driver Development Thread

[cherrybomb]

Hey all,

Just a quick update.

I've been meaning to get a new binary out, but things at work blew up around Thursday last week, and I've been running at 110% to get things back to normal, even though the weekend.

When this settles down, I'll get a new binary out.

Sorry for the delays, but I do promise it'll be worth the wait. :-)

[sama]

hey cheery

glad to see you're still at it my car pc is dead hence me disappearing so long

[CdRsKuLL]

just ordered one of these so subscribing :-)

[CdRsKuLL]

Just had a quick play in flash.. came up with this

http://www.freedrive.co.uk/temp/menu.swf

just playing with RR control with this thing :-)

[ironfinger]

dude, so you're going to design a flash skin that is Space Nav friendly?
I've been tayloring a skin to work with the SN, but if we're going to get one from you, i will drop everything this instant!

[CdRsKuLL]

Hi m8, dont drop everything as I'm just having a play at the moment. more adapting a skin to suit my needs. I have a powermate at the moment and just spent an hour getting it to work with rr so it rotates a simple menu round and when pressed it selects whats there, simple stuff but its just a work proof really. once I'm happy (which I am) that its all possible then I will see what just can be done.

[ik632]

That's pretty cool CdRsKuLL. I couldn't get it to work with the SN but clicking on the arrows makes the selector move from segment to segment. If I only knew programming better I'd give it a go. Do you know of any good resources to get started in learning Flash?

[turbocad6]

awe man, if cdr's in on this thing I think were in for a real treat

[cherrybomb]

Okay, super long delay.. Sorry about that.

If you check out the SourceForge Project there is now a new release 0.1B. This contains context switching, and gestures, and some of the early work to support multiple HID devices.

The config.xml file has lots of comments which attempts to describe how to tweak the configuration. VERY high on my list of priorities is getting an app thrown together which will allow you to build config files from a UI. This should make it a lot friendlier.

I'm seriously considering making the aforementioned config app in .NET, requiring that whatever system you build the config on, has .NET installed. .NET won't be necessary on your CarPC though. Any thoughts on this?

I know the documentation is fairly crappy right now, but I do hope for it to get better. Let me know how this one works, and if you have any questions. There is still more work to do to make it "awesome", but this should be good enough for some more techie early adopters to have some fun with. :-)

[ironfinger]

cool! I'm not that tech savy, but I do tend to be able to hack my way through things, so I'll give it a shot..

thanks!