Re: [AD] demo of new joystick API

[Peter W. <tj...@oz...>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

>On 2004-09-06, Peter Wang <tj...@oz...> wrote:
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>>3. Button states were changed from bits (i.e. pressed or released)
>>into integer values.  This is to support analogue buttons.
>>Neither the Linux nor DirectX drivers support analogue buttons
>>yet, though.
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>If you are designing something like this into the future, you might
>want to use floats in range -1 to 1 instead of integers, to avoid
>any possible issue with "DirectX gives -127 to 128 and Linux gives
>-512 to 512" or similar.
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Linux gives -32767 to 32767, and DirectInput lets you choose the range 
of values :-P  But yeah, I know what you mean.

>>- Function: void al_uninstall_joystick_driver(void)
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>remove seems shorter to type, and the so far naming trend.
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I always thought "remove" was a dumb opposite of "install".  Time to get 
rid of it.

>>4. As a simple optimisation, I'm thinking of adding a "timestamp"
>>or "watermark" field to the joystate structure.
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>What happened to "premature optimization is the root of all evil"?
>Just forget that until the new version can be used in an actual game
>and you can profile the time spent on copying/updating structures.
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I will coerce my brother into using the new joystick API for Raid'em ;-)

Peter