AltL-J key to swap (real) joystick in sdl port doesn't do anything #156
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During my work on #197 I noticed that indeed the swapping of joysticks only applies to the keyboard-emulated ones. Looking for example at the code around Line 1590 in c0f94a7 you see that the keyboard input comes before, but the SDL input comes after the swap. I have some ideas how physical joysticks could get swapped as well, and I personally believe that would make sense and shouldn't do any harm. But as #197 entails some significant code changes I'd like to see that merged first. Also I can't promise that I'll find the time to write code for this. |
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@gagern feel free to go ahead with this one. :-) |
This swaps all physical devices connected to the first two emulated joysticks: the keyboard keys, the SDL devices, and the LPT devices. After the swap the real joystick / hat setting in the UI will appear swapped as well, but the keyboard setting won't. Changing that would require one more indirection. Fixes atari800#156.
This swaps all physical devices connected to the first two emulated joysticks: the keyboard keys, the SDL devices, and the LPT devices. After the swap the real joystick / hat setting in the UI will appear swapped as well, but the keyboard setting won't. Changing that would require one more indirection. Fixes #156.
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Alt-J was supposed to switch keyboard joysticks only, because physical joysticks can be simply handed over, no need to switch them in software. |
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Switching physical joysticks is hard on my devterm which has a built in d-pad but I'd prefer to use the competition pro as primary joystick. Doing so requires shenanigans with the udev devices which I failed to automate so far. Sorry for not stating the use-case more specifically. Edit: I guess devices running Linux with built in controllers like these did not exist or were very rare when that feature was introduced. I think now it makes a lot of sense. |
With recent atari800 from github 52af3c6 Nov. 6, compiled on a DevTerm (raspberry pi with arm64) via
fakeroot debian/rules binarystart ballblazer in atari800, with internal gamepad as /dev/input/js0 and speedlink competition pro extra usb as /dev/input/js1, moving the axis on the first joystick will always move the top player and the other one the lower player, no matter how desperate I press AltL-J.(Instead of ballblazer
10 print stick(0), stick(1): goto 10in basic. I guess most people will have ballblazer...)(The use-case is of course to play boulder dash with the competition pro instead of the d-pad.)
Or is that only valid for the keybboard joystick?
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