Add console commands to control camera position about org.geppetto HOT 2 CLOSED

@gidili any update?

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Some thoughts about this after investigating for a while.

Assumption is that we want to add hooks same as the other buttons on GEPPETTO.FE.js for the zoom/pan controls and re-route those to console commands like:

$('#start').click(function() {
   GEPPETTO.Console.executeCommand("Simulation.start()");
});

It looks like at the moment camera controls are initialised in GEPPETTO.init.js and then the camera position is updated in GEPPETTO.js by the updateCamera function.

The updateCamera function is then called by hooks to the rotate/pan/zoom buttons setup in GEPPETTO.init.js.

An option to refactor this would be pulling the rotate/pan/zoom functions into a "Camera" client side object. Creating this object would be nice if we can pull all camera related stuff in it - not just rotation/pan/zoom hooks but everything including init stuff.

As I look for camera related stuff, there is quite a bit of stuff in various places (GEPPETTO.js / GEPPETTO.init.js). This camera refactoring seems like a good thing to do definitely, but it also seems like a bigger task (creating this new object and making sure there's no camera manipulation happening outside of it) than just wrapping the hooks to the buttons and re-routing them to console actions.

Thoughts? @tarelli @jrmartin @mlolson

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