[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/10966 Add "Map joystick controls to keyboard keys for scripts" bit, on by defa

[James Paige]

I just now noticed that this bit breaks a few of the keyboard controls for
Don't Eat Soap.

Possibly a result of having manual scripting that checks both joysticks and
keyboard keys and now some of those checks return true twice for a keyboard
key.

Not a big deal, I'm sure it will be an easy fix, I just wanted to mention
it in case we run across any other similar issues with old games that
scripted for joystick support.

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James Paige


On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:04 AM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> This bit is a quick fix; I might replace it later with detailed
> settings for defining the joystick to keyboard mapping.
> I also wanted to extend it to map 3rd and 4th (and more) joystick
> buttons to Z and Shift, since I think those are the most common
> special keys used ... or maybe Z and X? Currently 3rd and 4th buttons
> are alternative Use and Cancel. But maybe there are some joysticks
> where 3rd and 4th buttons are 'handier'/more primary than 1st and 2nd.
>
> Also, it seemed kind of odd to have a settings to stop joysticks from
> acting like keyboard controls for scripts only, but not have any way
> to prevent joystick controls from working for moving the hero.
> But I think that should probably be a separate setting: Currently, you
> could say that keyboard, mouse, and all joysticks control player 1,
> but if you enable multiplayer controls (similar to how Ouya controls
> currently work) then the first joystick might become assigned player
> 2. And in that case, Left on joy 1 shouldn't register as key:left if
> you're reading player 1's controls regardless of this bit.
>
> Also it would be worth testing with some games that actually do use
> joystick script commands. I recall you suggested that only Ouya games
> might have actually cared about distringuishing between different
> controllers/keyboard.
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 23:45, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, cool! I can't wait to try this out!
> >
> > (Just need to order a gamepad and wait for it to ship!...)
> >
> > On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> teeemcee
> >> 2019-02-11 22:05:02 -0800 (Mon, 11 Feb 2019)
> >> 75
> >> Add "Map joystick controls to keyboard keys for scripts" bit, on by
> default
> >> ---
> >> U   wip/common_menus.bas
> >> U   wip/docs/plotdict.xml
> >> U   wip/ohrhelp/general_game_bitsets.txt
> >> U   wip/scriptcommands.bas
> >> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
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