Spaceball and 4.0.5

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From: Rainer Kleinrensing
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:57

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Hello there,
we currently have a 4D-220 VGX with a spaceball attached. After changing to
4.0.5, we noticed some differences regarding the spaceball:

  - we can't emulate the mouse using the spaceball; this was possible in 3.x   

  - the spaceball data format and programming interface seems to have
    changed, since a locally written application that used to work fine
    with the spaceball notww has problems such as long latency between moving
    the spaceball and seeing the result on screen and loosing events.

  - Occasionally we get SYSLOG errors of the form
    Jan 13 11:25:41 gt unix: WARNING: data event with unknown format.
    Jan 13 11:25:41 gt unix: WARNING: Bad length for data event (14 words)

Does anybody use a spaceball with 4.0.5 or knows what exactly has changed
or where to get information ?
Thanks a lot,

-- 

   Rainer Kleinrensing,    rainer@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
   Institute for Applied Mathematics
   Freiburg University

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From: kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing)
Subject: Spaceball and 4.0.5
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