Hi Nat:
I am really impressed with Zac's driver and extension, and I probably
should get a multi-button trackball. For now, the simplicity (or
limitation) of the dial (turn right, turn left, press-while-turning
right/left, short click, long click) can be augmented to give some
flexibility. For example, you can program a click of the dial to
toggle (via a key, in this example F5) to go through various dialsets:
def toggle_dial(): \
if dialset == 1 : \
print "Changing to y" \
dialy() \
elif dialset == 2 : \
print "Changing to z" \
dialz() \
elif dialset == 3 : \
print "Changing to x" \
dialx() \
else: print "Dial assignment isn't working"
cmd.set_key ('F5', toggle_dial)
You can see how I defined the functions dialx(), dialy(), dialz() and
so on here:
http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/powermate_pymol_osx.html
Doubtless anyone with programming aptitude could improve this
drastically.
I am guessing that this is platform-independent.
As a side note I like the dial because it takes up little desk space,
and substituting it for the scroll wheel makes my hand hurt less.
Say "hi" to the hate-man for me,
Bill
