GLUTSPACEBALLMOTIONFUNC(3)

💖 GLUTSPACEBALLMOTIONFUNC(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the OpenGLUT manual, in the input section, and it's literally just about setting up a callback for a spaceball. yes, a spaceball. those six-degrees-of-freedom puck things. it's giving niche but iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

glutSpaceballMotionFunc — Sets a spaceball motion callback.

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🌸 LIBRARY 🌸

OpenGLUT - input

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutSpaceballMotionFunc(void( *callback )( int x, int y, int z ));

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💅 PARAMETERS 💅

• callback — the client's spaceball motion hook. that's your lil function that gets pinged, bestie. 🫶

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what this does is register a callback for a spaceball so it can report its position. and babes, a spaceball is not a regular mouse — it's got six axes of freedom (that's three of motion and three of orientation, for the record) plus buttons on top. she's doing the most, and we love that for her. 👑

the spaceball lets you move a control point around in 3D space, with a resolution of +/- 1000 units along each of the 3 axes. precision queen behavior fr fr. ✨

💡 and here's the part you actually need to remember: the callback gets bound to the current window. so whatever window is current when you call this? that's the one she's attached to. no cap.

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🙈 CAVEATS 🙈

okay so this is the part where I have to hold your hand a little bit:

💀 OpenGLUT does not implement spaceball support.

that's it. that's the caveat. she's on the menu but she's not in the kitchen. i know. I KNOW. 😭 iconic of OpenGLUT honestly, but yeah — registering this callback won't get you a working spaceball pipeline in this implementation.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glutSpaceballRotateFunc(3)
• glutSpaceballButtonFunc,(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no notes, go forth and be a spaceball girlie 🧚

source/version: OpenGLUT · UNDATED · UNTITLED() — mwah, bye 💖🌸