RE: [Plib-devel] Saitek X52 joystick with 34 buttons

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

Heh, heh, you won't find _that_ getting into "freeglut" any time soon!

What Steve didn't address--apart from the (at the moment) very limited
application of a 34-button joystick--is the question of an interface
extension:  "jsJoystick::read64 ( ... )" and "jsJoystick::rawRead64 ( ...
)".  Those would not break any existing applications.

John F. Fay
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Subject: Re: [Plib-devel] Saitek X52 joystick with 34 buttons

Trammell Hudson wrote:
> I've recently started using a Saitek X52 joystick with my Linux box and
> have run into problems with plib's JS module limitation in the number
> of supported buttons.  It only supports up to 32 buttons due to the
> MAX_BUTTONS definition and the fact that it uses an int to store the
> button state, but the X52 has 34 buttons (and 12 axes). 

That's practically a keyboard!

Changing PLIB to support more than 32 buttons would break 100% of
joystick using applications.

I personally find it very hard to believe that there are any
applications out there that would actually use that many - so
for now, I'm not inclined to change the interface to support
more buttons.

If there is a bug to fix in *limiting* the number of buttons
to 32 - then we should fix that.

> Changing tmp_buttons to a uint64_t, updating the arguments to
> jsJoystick::rawRead and jsJoystick::read fixed that for me.

But it would break other applications.  We absolutely cannot do that.

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