Paul, I can imagine building MacDials from a USB hub and eight
PowerMates. Would even be cheaper than the original dials, and glow
blue. But everyone has old dials lying around...
The SBGrid implementation of the dials worked beautifully. It would be
so nice to have that available in the current release of coot because
0.1 doesn't really cut it anymore, does it? Every time I'd ask a
question on the mailing list, you'd be entirely justified to admonish me
to upgrade to the latest coot.
Andreas
On 11/01/2010 12:09, Paul Emsley wrote:
> Oliver Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Apologies if this has been asked before - does anyone know if it is
>> possible (and if so, how) to get an SGI dial box to work with Coot 0.6?
>
> Yes and no. The SBGrid build a version of Coot-0.1 with sgi dials
> enabled for Mac OS X (it may still be available on their web site).
> (They gave me the interface code, but I was never able to compile it, so
> it didn't make it into the main line.)
>
> As Andreas says, a PowerMate is the way to go for now, if you have a
> Mac. You can bind various rotations to generate key presses and
> configure Coot to react to key presses. I believe that you can plug in
> several PowerMates and use them together (not tried it myself though).
>
>
> Paul.
>
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Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
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