(Suggestion) Add Toggle L & R Buttons feature and "separable" buttons (Android)

[Leopard20]

Can you please add an option that makes L & R buttons toggleable? This would be extremely useful in games that require you to hold L and/or R buttons to perform actions (such as Assassin's Creed).
A way to do this would be to add another virtual button (but maybe hide it by default), so that every time the user presses it the L and R buttons become toggleable.

Also, can you add an option that makes the directional buttons and the "shape" buttons (triangle, cross, etc) move separately when you want to change the layout?

[ghost]

You could try using the "Combo Key Setup" and add the corresponding buttons in "Control" settings. That would help to alleviate any issues with the L & R buttons on a touch screen. You can use multiple inputs with the press of one button with that feature. Or better yet, get a gamepad to pair up with your Android device, via Bluetooth. Don't know what to say about your other suggestions.

[Leopard20]

Does that mean, for instance, if I check R and cross in the "combo key setup" menu and then press either of the buttons, both will be pressed at the same time?

[Leopard20]

Never mind. I figured it out!
But that means I'll have to add 4 more buttons for high profile actions too! The toggle feature seems more reasonable to me!
Still, thanks for the tip!

[Leopard20]

@hrydgard, @unknownbrackets
Instead of making the default "shape" buttons separable, I think it's better to add another set of shape buttons, but make them invisible. (similar to combo buttons)
This is a concept drawing I prepared that shows what I mean:

What do you think?

There's also another way of doing this. Have you ever used Mupen64 (or Mega64) N64 emulator? It has a very cool feature where you can toggle buttons by swiping on them instead of pressing.

P.S: The toggles can also be made invisible.

[Leopard20]

@hrydgard
Should I close this or what?!

[hrydgard]

Why? Just haven't gotten around to it, doesn't mean it won't ever happen..

I'd really like to make touch controls a lot more flexible in some more generic way, maybe allowing lua scripts so people can make really smart things for each game. That's quite a project though.

[Leopard20]

Sorry. You hadn't said anything so I figured you weren't interested!

[hrydgard]

There are many many issues :)

[ghost]

This might be fixed with 57b4cd3?

[unknownbrackets]

Yeah, this can be accomplished now with #13869, so I'll close as such.

-[Unknown]