CHAPTER 5 Input 2. What Are Input Devices课件.pptVIP

CHAPTER 5 Input What Are Input Devices Input Devices Various devices are available for data input on graphics workstations. Most systems have a keyboard and one or more additional devices specially designed for interactive input. These include a mouse, trackball, space ball, joystick, digitizers, button boxes. Some other input devices used In particular applications are data gloves, touch panels, image scanners, and voice systems. Input devices Project Sketchpad characterizes interactive computer graphics: User sees an object on the display User points to (picks) the object with an input device (light pen, mouse, trackball) Object changes (moves, rotates) Repeat Graphical Input Devices can be described either by Physical properties Mouse Keyboard Trackball Logical Properties What is returned to program via API A position An object identifier Modes How and when input is obtained Request or event Physical Devices mouse trackball light pen data tablet joy stick space ball Incremental (Relative) Devices Devices such as the data tablet return a position directly to the operating system Devices such as the mouse, trackball, and joy stick return incremental inputs (or velocities) to the operating system Must integrate these inputs to obtain an absolute position Rotation of cylinders in mouse Roll of trackball Difficult to obtain absolute position Can get variable sensitivity Logical Devices Consider the C and C++ code C++: cin x; C: scanf (“%d”, x); What is the input device? Can’t tell from the code Could be keyboard, file, output from another program The code provides logical input A number (an int) is returned to the program regardless of the physical device Graphical Logical Devices Graphical input is more varied than input to standard programs which is usually numbers, characters, or bits Two older APIs defined six types of logical input Locator: return a position Pick: return ID of an object Keyboard: return strings of characters Stroke: return array of positions