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

[Fay J. F Dr C. U. AFSEO/SK <joh...@eg...>]

John,

	Hmmm ... it appears from Steve's latest e-mail that while you have
permission to make your own "PLIB-Denker" library he isn't really interested
in changing PLIB proper.  PLIB is licensed under the LGPL so you can make
your own copy and change it as you wish, so long as you offer your changes
back to the PLIB community itself.  It appears that the PLIB community's
response will be a polite "Thank you, but no thank you."

	The reason Steve didn't use STDLIB in the first place is that when
PLIB was first written, STDLIB was neither standard, nor widespread, nor
reliable.

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow
Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
850-883-1294 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:41 AM
To: PLIB Developers
Subject: Re: [Plib-devel] Saitek X52 joystick with 34 buttons

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?


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