Re: [AD] demo of new joystick API

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> On 2004-09-06, Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > 3. Button states were changed from bits (i.e. pressed or released)
> > into integer values.  This is to support analogue buttons.
> > Neither the Linux nor DirectX drivers support analogue buttons
> > yet, though.
> >    
>
> If you are designing something like this into the future, you might
> want to use floats in range -1 to 1 instead of integers, to avoid
> any possible issue with "DirectX gives -127 to 128 and Linux gives
> -512 to 512" or similar.
>
>  
Linux gives -32767 to 32767, and DirectInput lets you choose the range 
of values :-P  But yeah, I know what you mean.

> > - Function: void al_uninstall_joystick_driver(void)
> >    
>
> remove seems shorter to type, and the so far naming trend.
>  

I always thought "remove" was a dumb opposite of "install".  Time to get 
rid of it.

> > 4. As a simple optimisation, I'm thinking of adding a "timestamp"
> > or "watermark" field to the joystate structure.
> >    
>
> What happened to "premature optimization is the root of all evil"?
> Just forget that until the new version can be used in an actual game
> and you can profile the time spent on copying/updating structures.
>  

I will coerce my brother into using the new joystick API for Raid'em ;-)

Peter