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

[John D. <sf...@av...>]

On 01/02/2007 10:06 AM, Fay John F Dr CTR USAF AFSEO/SK wrote:
> 
>         The next step is to get Steve Baker's permission to add the
> capability without breaking the old applications.

And how do we do that?

>         Do you have one of these joysticks so that we can test the changes?

Yes.

>         The step after that is actually to implement something.
> 
>         I have SVN access (hint:  a year ago I didn't have CVS access)
> and so things that need changing can get changed.

It seems like the obvious approach is to represent the buttons and axes
as
    vector<bool>   and
    vector<float>
respectively.

If it had been done that way all along, we wouldn't be having the bugs we
have now.

Using  vector<bool>  is the c++ way of doing things.  Indeed, one of the
reasons for inventing the c++ language was to exterminate bugs of this
kind, which are appallingly common in old-style c code.

Does anybody have any better suggestions?