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

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Bram Stolk wrote:
> Trammell Hudson wrote:
> 
>> I can envision a HOTAS stick and radio stack with far more than 64 or
>> 128 buttons or knobs.  Who wants to go down in history as having said
>> that:
>>
>>     64 buttons should be enough for anybody.

But would you *really* approach that problem using the joystick API?

That makes no sense at all.  Once you're interfacing to an entire
cockpit mockup, you likely also have a bazillion little lights to
light up, things like instruments - you name it.

At that point, you're going to need a much more serious API.

> I think we should consult the man (Steve :-)  ) before doing
> API changes. Maybe a good solution would be to extend the API,
> instead of changing it. Have a 32 button member func, and a n-button
> member func in addition.

Yeah - but if we do that, we shouldn't just go to a 64 bit word - we
should switch to a bool array of variable length or something.

But whatever we do, the present API *must* be retained and must continue
to work ok for the first 32 buttons.

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