<viewpoint>.link

[david]

Hi,

I tried using the link function for a viewpoint doing what is in the help (something like: myview.link(mysensor))
but I get a error message stating that link() requires 3 arguments (2 given). What is the 3rd argument?

David

[farshizzo]

Hi David,

Just pass in 0 as the second argument. In the current version you don't need to do this, you might have an older version.

[david]

Thanks for your answer Farshizzo but I still don't understand.

I ran the following lines:

headTrack = viz.addsensor('is600')
#is600 is a custom plug-in that can track two sensors
headView = viz.add(viz.VIEWPOINT)
headView.link(headTrack,0)

And I got the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in ?
File "test_attach_other_viewpoint.py", line 13, in ?
headView.link(headTrack,0)
File "C:\Program Files\Vizard20\viz.py", line 1354, in link
_ipcSend(_VIZ_LINKVIEW,self.id,sensor,id,'',mask,0 ,0,0)
TypeError: function takes exactly 8 arguments (9 given)

Then I tried putting the mask argument (0) first and tried the following script. But apparently the HEAD_LOOK vector is not updating, and I only get the vectors [0,0,1,0] over and over again.

import viz
viz.go()

headTrack = viz.addsensor('is600')
headTrack.command(11)
# Uses only 3 dof to prevent drifting of the scene
# To switch back to 6 dof use command(1)
handTrack = viz.addsensor('is600')
handTrack.command(11)

headView = viz.add(viz.VIEWPOINT)
headView.link(0,headTrack)

handView = viz.add(viz.VIEWPOINT)
handView.link(0,handTrack)

def test(t):
vect = headView.get(viz.HEAD_LOOK)
print 'headLook',vect
vect = handView.get(viz.HEAD_LOOK)
print 'handLook',vect
viz.starttimer(0,3)

viz.starttimer(0)
viz.callback(viz.TIMER_EVENT,'test')

[david]

I checked my version of vizard and it seems to be the most up to date... 2.12

[farshizzo]

Hi David,

Thanks for including the error message, there is a typo in viz.py. The following line:

_ipcSend(_VIZ_LINKVIEW,self.id,sensor,id,'',mask,0,0,0)

should be changed to:

_ipcSend(_VIZ_LINKVIEW,self.id,sensor.id,'',mask,0,0,0)

viz.py is in the main vizard directory. After you change this line, save the file and restart vizard. Your problem should be fixed then. Sorry for all the trouble.

[david]

It seems to be working. Thanks!
I still have to test with the sensors connected, but it should work. At least I do not get a compilation error

David