Static Universal input class?

[Shadowblitz16]

does anybody know how I would go about making a universal input class that is static?
I want it to auto detect whether the input is from the keyboard or from the joystick and what joystick

I wanted the syntax to work kinda like this..

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Input::SetButton(ButtonType t) // << button type is the action it is getting mapped to (a, b  up, down, left, right, start, select) returns void.
Input::GetButton(ButtonType t,  ButtonState s) // << same here but takes a button state which is (down, held and up) returns bool.

ButtonType and ButtonState would be defined in the class.

does anybody know if this is possible?

[eXpl0it3r]

Maybe explain a bit more in text form what you're trying to achieve. I didn't quite understand what you're after.

In case you didn't know, SFML provide sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(key) as well as similar functions for mouse and joysticks.

[Elias Daler]

Shadowblitz16 is probably asking about mapping virtual keys to multiple inputs. In this case, you should just create Input class with bunch of static std::unordered_maps which will have ButtonType as key and sf::Keyboard::Key/joystick button id as a value. Then you'll call Input::update() on each frame and check if some of the buttons in your maps were pressed. If they were, you'll store the result somewhere and will return it when calling Input::GetButton(...)

[Shadowblitz16]

can you provide some example code?
keyboards and gamepads have different function and do not support held down keys directly.
I need a way to tell if a key or button is pressed, held, or released and what direction and what axis the joypad and arrow keys are being held.

[Hiura]

Aren't the features provided here https://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.4.2/classsf_1_1Joystick.php#details and there https://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.4.2/classsf_1_1Keyboard.php#details not enough to do the trick? What else would you need?