8:00 – 3:00

• Backed up
• Got admin privileges on my development box, so I can try a variety of flash players to see what gives with the old version of PPM
• Working on figuring out what timesheet and what charge number to use.
• Also working on getting the security videos to download. Done. Need to sign and send off the form
• Worked on the design of the new Ingest Manager / Scripting IDE. Req’s here.
• Long chat with Jessie about Novetta/FGM/White Cliffs.

3:00 – 4:00 FP

• Changing HelloHapticDevice2 to classes. Need to figure out how to do C++ callbacks inside of classes again.
• Ran into some odd problems that were fixed by moving all the shared .h files to stdafx.h and just including that. The static callback is set and compiling. Tomorrow we’ll try firing it.

8:00 – 12:00 ESSO

• Deployed a new version of PPM that seems to be working much better than the old version
• Backups. Slow, but at least I can get on the server
• Security training.

12:00 – 4:00 FP

• Switched over to the HD command-line examples to see what’s actually going on. Code is better commented, and seems to run better. There aren’t any peculiar error messages, at least, and no GLUT.
• Looking through HelloHapticDevice.
• Got a copy of the project built with MSVC working (i.e. with stdafx, etc.) I had to move a copy of msvcrtd.lib to the lib folder that was explicitly included. Otherwise, here are screenshots of the various properties (Note the Active(DebugAcademicEdition) configuration at the top of the dialog:

• And that’s it for 2012.

8:00 – 12:00 ESSO

• Walked through some bugs with Lenny.
• Attempted to back up but the connection with PuTTY was way slow. It seems to be a known problem, so I’ll wait until Monday to try again.
• Helped Brian out with some JavaScript/HTML that handles collapsing tables. The code was not written well to educate.

12:00 – 4:00 FP

• Got the HLAPI demonstration code compiled, though some things run and some things don’t. I get errors like “Haptics failed to initialize”. Still, “HelloSphere” works, which is enough to get the hang of things.
• Hmm. Looks like it’s written for OGL 1.x?
• Still, pretty cool. I’ve got a rotating cube with appropriate forces:

• Also a teapot. So arbitrary geometry seems fine.
• Still, I don’t like this:

	// Start a new haptic shape.  Use the feedback buffer to capture OpenGL 
	// geometry for haptic rendering.
	hlBeginShape(HL_SHAPE_FEEDBACK_BUFFER, gSphereShapeId);

• That does mean OGL 1.x. No feedback buffer in OGL 3.0 or greater. That means this library probably won’t be all that useful.