Re: [pygame] How to do some action while a joystick is in motion?

2018-09-18 Thread Ian Mallett
Perhaps have your "start" and "stop" commands affect the presence/absence of an acceleration for the camera. This way, the camera will smoothly accelerate up to a top speed, and decelerate back down from it smoothly when control is released. (Obviously "speed" can mean "angular speed" as well as tr

Re: [pygame] How to do some action while a joystick is in motion?

2018-09-18 Thread Radomir Dopieralski
You can simply remember the last state and not send any commands until it changes. On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:52:49 -0700 Alec Bennett wrote: > I'm making a controller for a PTZ ("pan/tilt/zoom") camera using > Pygame, so I can move the camera around with a gaming joystick. It > works but the motion

[pygame] How to do some action while a joystick is in motion?

2018-09-18 Thread Alec Bennett
I'm making a controller for a PTZ ("pan/tilt/zoom") camera using Pygame, so I can move the camera around with a gaming joystick. It works but the motion is very jerky. The camera expects a "start" action ("start moving the camera left") and then a stop action ("stop moving it"). I'm handling that