Just wondering, with all the feedback on font size on the other thread. Is there anyone else on the list who would agree that there's some benefit in having a simple way to implement pointing through joysticks in a way that's easily interchangeable with the mouse or is the idea really that pointless?
-Thiago On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Thiago Chaves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to improve the UI on my recent project and decided to allow > users to use joysticks as pointing devices too. To do that I defined a > class that encapsulates both mouse and joystick and gives them an > interface (slightly) similar to the mouse module. I figure the pointer > classes could still be improved, but I decided to release one early > version of it along with an example to get some early feedback on the > idea. > > There's really no advantage on using this over mouse module if you're > using only mouse. It'd make sense in situations where you got both > joysticks and mouse as pointing devices. (local multiplayer > point-and-click games, anyone?) > > There's an example, which just uses the mouse and as many joysticks as > you have as pointing devices. Notice the joystick devices start > pointing at (0, 0) > > Could anyone give this a try and give me some feedback? What is good? > What is bad? What is missing? What is unnecessary? > > Thanks, > > -Thiago >
