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

[James Paige]

> Not a big deal, I'm sure it will be an easy fix

I want to clarify that I meant this will be easy to fix in Don't Eat Soap's
scripts. I don't think this really calls for an engine fix.



On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:48 PM James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---
> 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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