Wiimote Project

Hm, just realised its a problem with 0.2, i thought i was using 0.2 but i was using 0.1

Maybe we should try comparing the changes of the code from 0.1 to 0.2?
As a temporary measure for vista users, maybe we can just place the mouse emulation code from Johnny's 0.1 into the 0.2 with smoothing.

[youtube]http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=A2EeArfPhW4[/youtube]

works here with vista and 0.2 with smoothing
stack is ms vista std stack
connection established with my wiimote connect software

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Is there a possibility to have an IR Pen which has a bigger range as the regular ones?

I'd love to just point with my pen on the whiteboard from 5-6 meters away.
Do you think thats possible?

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Benpaddlejones :-)

Thanks a lot!
at last I managed to actually use the WiiMote I bought.
Tomorrow I will use it in class.

Thanks again, and I don't want to bother you more, but is there any chance you can make the VR Display work as well in the same method?

Hey boonjin, great job on implementing the smoothing in Johnny Lee's app.  It makes a really significant difference. I've got a request of a feature that I think would be pretty useful.

I know you've already developed the stand alone app to handle right clicking, where you can toggle which click you would like to use, but how about integrating a right clicker into the whiteboard app?

I remember reading about the Java version that someone else was working on and they said they implemented right clicking by using a timer.  So basically, if someone holds down the left click for one second at the same position, it would perform a right click instead. 

I guess you would have to use the previous few points and take an average to make sure they weren't clicking and dragging (a little movement is to be expected, so there may be some threshold values to play around with). 

I can't think of too many times where you need to perform a left click and hold it down without moving the cursors position, so it seems like it should work pretty well.  This way you wouldn't have to have a separate app, and you wouldn't have to constantly toggle between left and right clicks. 

I was playing starcraft on my projected whiteboard the other day, and I really wish I had an easy right click    If I could code better I would definitely try it myself. 

It would be nice if you got to toggle on/off the right click functionality as well like you do the cursor control, and maybe have a drop down box to select the wait time to perform the right click (.5 seconds, 1 second, 2 seconds.)

If you don't have the time or such it's understandable, but I think this would be a neat little addition that would greatly increase the functionality without making any changes to the hardware.

Boonjin
I think integrating your rightclicker with your whiteboard smoothing is all you need.

Right click is only used occasionally and having to click down on the windows taskbar before right clicking is no big deal.

The clickhold at one location in other apps requires a hold for 5 sec, clicking down on the taskbar then next click is a right click in quicker!

Plus the programming is mostly done, just need to fix Onenote/Powerpoint pen probs then all good.

Benpaddlejones

I am now trying to port over the rightclicker into the whiteboard.

Since different people might have different choices in the rightclicking option, maybe I will slowly add the various different methods into the WiimoteWhiteboard.

Keep the suggestions coming.

Thanks
Will try to work on this as fast as possible

Any more quick changes needed?