Author Topic: Better input support (Read 4271 times)

Elgan · « **on:** February 14, 2012, 03:02:55 pm »

I thought I would write it here, so it's not forgotten,

maybe a roadmap would be helpful for the website?

While we wait for better keymaps, more keys and maybe better named joystick keys.

Really annoying right now, how can I make anything for release which might fail on its input?

Is there anything that we can do?

Not sure I want to go including a separate input library...not that I actually found one that is not tied to orge :\

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2012, 03:23:08 pm »

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maybe a roadmap would be helpful for the website?

https://github.com/SFML/SFML/issues

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Is there anything that we can do?

You can start working on the issue(s), and submit ideas and/or patches.

Elgan · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2012, 11:34:17 am »

alright thank you,

Im more than happy to have a look.

I do however not have any experience, nore won a mac, :\....linux I can always duel boot I guess. never used linux either.

road map is good thank you,

Laurent · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2012, 11:45:46 am »

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I do however not have any experience, nore won a mac, :\....linux I can always duel boot I guess. never used linux either.

Implementation will most likely not be a problem, the actual issue is to find a simple and efficient design that solves all the problems. This is the complicated part.

Klaim · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2012, 09:29:36 pm »

Laurent, did you take a look at (or consider including) OIS? http://sourceforge.net/projects/wgois/

Laurent · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2012, 09:48:05 pm »

Yes I already had a look at it. However it is not known to be perfect, and the last significant update to their repository seems to be 2 years old.

I am more interested in how SDL 1.3 manages input.

Klaim · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2012, 09:54:43 pm »

In fact there is a v1.4 going on but I can't find where is the repository. I also (some time ago) notified the author that documentation was really poor.

See : http://www.wreckedgames.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html?PHPSESSID=57571f7aa397403e37ac4f32a0a9c320

I understand that SDL input system might have a design more fitted to SFML, but I think OIS design could provide interesting insights.

Elgan · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2012, 11:12:39 pm »

OIS does look real nice, when I looked at it before I dropped it as I did not want to play about with directinput....maybe that's a bit prude of me...but at the moment I'm not playing with input yet anyway.

1.4 sounds nice, I mean
-* Native Win32 Mouse/Keyboard support - no DirectInput

but still road mapped :\

OniLinkPlus · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2012, 01:29:45 am »

I thought 1.3 was going to become 2.0 when it's finished.

Laurent · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2012, 09:31:24 am »

I think he's talking about OIS

And as far as I remember, SDL 1.3 is a compromise because it would have taken too much time (!!) to break everything in 2.0; it adds new features but leaves the 1.2 API untouched. If I remember correctly, of course.