RE: [Freeglut-developer] Multiple Joysticks

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Nigel,

	The comments at your web site sound well-thought-out.  (I haven't
had a lot of time to think them out myself, but I don't see anything
glaring.)  The primary problem that I see is a question of coders and
testers:  we'll need someone with a joystick, with or without a USB port,
running Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and NetBSD at a minimum.  (I've invited
someone from the PLIB community who has a Macintosh to try "freeglut", but I
daresay his biggest problems will be elsewhere in the library.)

John F. Fay
joh...@eg...



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Nigel Stewart
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Subject: Re: [Freeglut-developer] Multiple Joysticks



> I propose that we add an argument to "glutJoystickFunc" (and rename it) to
> allow the application to specify which joystick the callback applies to.
 > Suggestions?

When I looked into GLUT and FreeGLUT joystick handling, I
put a few thoughts here:

http://www.nigels.com/glt/news.html

Generally, I thought that the API should be revised to
support multiple joysticks and connect and disconnect events.
The "legacy" callbacks would remain supported for the first
detected joystick, I suppose.

As the result of some discussion in relation to collaborative
interaction or gaming applications - I realised that the same
generality would also be useful for keyboard and mouse as
well.  Again, the "legacy" callbacks would be perfectly supported
for less exotic applications.

It was the one person, one mouse, one screen interaction model
that we were particular interested in experimenting with, or
rather, multi-person, multi input, one (big) screen.

With the USB hot-plug kind of functionality these days, it makes
sense to extend GLUT to generate the connect and disconnect
events.

Nigel



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