[openglean-devel]Joystick support in gleandev.

[Richard R. <sf...@ol...>]

On further reflection, as I create the split gleandev project, I
am inclined to remove support for callbacks.  They complicate
the library in ways that don't help most applications significantly,
and create a pseudo-event API where the low level code does not do
events.  So as the core library prepares to remove the obsolete
functions, gleandev will provide explicit-poll joystick support
for C programs.

The proper way for you to do joystick events is to use a GLUT
timer.  I can come up with covoluted examples where that is
slightly more trouble than the GLUT joystick API, but do not
see how those examples would be an impediment to applications in
practice.  So the traditional GLUT joystick API will be unmourned.

Of course, as with the rest of the OpenGLEAN API that is currently
available but marked "deprecated", the GLUT joystick API will remain
available through OpenGLEAN 1.0.  But this is one area where I am
now disinclined to support a verbatim API clone via satellites, at
this time.

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