IS-900 Wand Data

[Kaminski]

Hi All,
I am unable to retrieve button data from my IS-900 Simtracker wand. When using the following commands:

isense = viz.add('intersense.dle')
wandTracker = isense.addTracker(port=4,station=2)
def printData():
print wandTracker.getData()
vizact.onkeydown('p',printData)

I only get two datapoints in the list, such as '[127.0,37.0]' -- just the joystick data. Is there any way to make sure that I have the most recent version of intersense.dle? I suspect I may need to update the intersense firmware, as it is probably pretty old, but want to exhaust any other options first.

[farshizzo]

You should be able to use the standard extension sensor button methods for accessing the wand button data.

From the Sensor basics documentation page:

<extSensor>.buttonState() - Get the state of the buttons as a bit flag.

<extSensor>.buttonCount() - Get the number of buttons on sensor.

<extSensor>.isButtonDown(button) - Returns whether the specified button is currently down.

viz.SENSOR_DOWN_EVENT - Called when a sensor button is pressed.

viz.SENSOR_UP_EVENT - Called when a sensor button is released.

[Kaminski]

Extension sensor methods do the trick, thanks.