| Re: [AD] Hotplug joysticks |
[ Thread Index |
Date Index
| More lists.liballeg.org/allegro-developers Archives
]
- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] Hotplug joysticks
- From: Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:36:34 -0600
Maybe it's best to do something like...
al_get_num_joysticks
if (!al_event_source_needs_to_emit_events(system_event_source))
return unmodified num_joysticks and do no updating.
On 2010-08-18, at 11:19 AM, Trent Gamblin wrote:=
> On 2010-08-18, at 11:14 AM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> To me, it seems that this change would not cause existing code to behave differently under the same circumstances (ie, you don't plug in or unplug a joystick). Based on that, I think it's fine to push this off to 5.1.
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> That's partially true. The problem is if users start calling al_get_num_josticks willy nilly their program could break with 5.1.