Hi Philip, A word of advice. Don't let the uninformed masses sway your decision like that. I've been programming for a very long time, at least ten years, and have spent the last five or so creating accessible games. Bottom line, the average user of your software doesn't know beans about programming, and are ill informed to make decisions on if something like adding Jaws support would be good for the product in the long run. All they know is that they would like to have this feature, but don't really know if it is technically possible or not, and certainly don't know kinds of trouble you will have trying to get Jaws and DirectInput to work together like that. They are in a word "uneducated" about the facts.
I'll freely admit I am not a very big fan of Jaws or Freedom Scientific. However, from both a professional and technical point-of-view adding Jaws support is a very bad idea. The main one is the Jaws API is limited, Jaws is well known for blocking keyboard input using DirectInput, you have to use a lot more system resources to run that game because you have to keep Jaws loaded, etc. I think if you were firm and explained to them that this is technically not a good idea most will understand. Those who don't or won't understand have no business writing games since they are technically incompitent to be discussing such technical matters in my personal opinion. On 1/4/11, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > You are quite correct. The Jaws API is very limited in its functionality and > so I'm not very keen on adding it to my engine (especially considering the > DirectInput bug as well), but a lot of people are requesting it so I think > I'll have to do it in the end. Smile. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
