Re: [isugamedev-devel] gamekernel analog inputs

[Chad A. <ae...@ae...>]

> I'd say it should always return some sane value such as:
> 
> [0..1]     (normalized 0 to 1)
> [-1..1]    (normalized -1 to 1)

Yes, definitely.

> [0..127]   (7bit)
> [0..100]   (0 - 100%)
> [0..255]   (8bit)
> [0..65530] (16bit)

Not so cool.  ^^

> I think it would enable robust applications with less code.
> 
> The other possibility would be to have the app set the value...  but then
> the driver would have to know how to scale to any arbitrary value (not too
> hard to do considering it would have to anyway)...
> 
> I'd hate to make the driver very complex, so I'd definately take that into
> consideration..

Yeah, I don't really like this idea.

In fact, I was just discussing input devices with a longstanding programmer
friend (my mentor, if you will) about input devices, and he even implements
digital devices as being an analog device that only outputs 0 or 1 (square
wave).