Regardless of the performance, I would not pay $200 for an improved joystick. But that’s just me.

Jean-Paul
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MichaelAtOz wrote

I'm not asking re that specific model, just  everyday joysticks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick  .

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I'd like joystick-ish navigation too.  But I'd lean towards a spacemouse
http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacemouse.html.  (Some people get
it, some don't)

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I got one of those, waiting for support to be rolled out.
I thought Spacemouse was different to generic joystick.

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Zoom in and out works with the spacemouse, but nothing else.

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That very much depends on Operating System and the Driver used.
On Linux without the special spacenavd driver the Space Mouse
simply shows up as multi-axis Joystick, so that sort-of works
with existing prototype (although I don't really like the current
code).
I don't think that would happen on Windows though as there's
probably no driver to map to a generic Joystick interface unless
the proprietary driver supports that.

As for normal Joystick, I tried with a gamepad (I think that
was a X-Box 360 controller at the time) which did work surprisingly
well.

ciao,
Torsten.

The basic spacemouse is about $65 ish and can be had for less on Ebay.
I use it with lots of other software.  I was skeptical too, till I used
one for a day.  I own three now, and I have two at work as well.

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A space mouse like that has 6 axis of control(basically 3 for
translation and 3 for rotation), while a conventional joystick has 2.

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