Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] Milestones--0.4.1

[Robert S. <the...@gm...>]

Hi.

Josh M Dye schrieb:
> Because of the way joysticks are set-up, if you disconnect one, they  
> all may need to be reconfigured.   The average player would  not  
> understand this, since each game-pad has an ID, it can be called upon  
> by name and not a number.  That way, controls could be mapped to the  
> game-pad regardless of what port it is plugged in.
SDL has no such thing like an ID for gamepads or joysticks. I guess this
would be to difficult to get this properly working across multiple
platforms because often the underlying APIs do not expose such a unique
ID either.

The closest you can come is
a) try with the name first (breaks if you have multiple identical
gamepads - like me :) )
b) use the index in a second attempt

Currently STK uses the index solely which means you have to plug in your
devices in the same order and (most likely) into the same USB ports.

I think I can implement the above explained detection method quite
easily. This would help those having multiple sticks/pads with different
names.

Regarding the other issues (deadzone, strangely max/min values) I quite
think that this either a bug in SDL or a driver issue: Since the times
of MS DOS are over games should not deal with calibrating a joystick
anymore. I wonder what values your gamepad generates within SDL and
whether you have problems in other SDL-based games, too.

Regards
Robert