[sldev] Gesture client code

[Dzonatas Sol]

Melinda Green wrote:
> Dzonatas Sol wrote:
>> Attached is the basics of what is needed to get the gesture tracker 
>> to listen to a port and react. For now, I've left out the XML server 
>> socket bits and just cut it down to minimal code. The XML server 
>> socket works, I just don't want to confuse that with the request to 
>> simply read a UDP socket and react to a lookatPoint or gesture. (The 
>> XML server socket is my criteria)
>>
>> GestureTracker::init( LLPumpIO* ) is the entry starter.
>>
>> The questions I have so far are:
>>
>> * is this correct way to setup and use mLookAt and 
>> mLookAt->setLookAt() ?  Also, not sure yet if it can be init'd when 
>> mainLoop() starts or only after login.
>> * I didn't find yet what attention type the head motion should have, 
>> but I picked free-look. If the position is updated, then the 
>> attention timer is reset or does it still time out?
>
> I suspect we should add a new attention type specifically for 
> head-tracking devices. Its default priority can be similar to 
> free-look (I.E. low). I'm thinking that it should be just below 
> free-look because it's inputs will be less "intentional" by the user. 
> (Conscious attention should take precedence over unconscious 
> attention.) I don't have the code in front of me but I expect the 
> timer will reset with each effective input. It should be fine that 
> these inputs come in almost continuously because assuming the priority 
> is low enough, then these inputs will be easily overruled by higher 
> priority attention inputs.
>
> -Melinda
>
Thanks for the good info!

I created a jira for the gesture tracker code:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13713

I added the C# program to send bytes to the UDP port, so now the 
reader/gesture-trigger/lookat code and the writer examples are there.