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

[James Paige]

Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

And you are right, Don't Eat Soap never did use joystick. It used the
Android support for mapping gamepad to keys. I can test that on my old
OUYA, I just haven't rebuilt anything for it recently.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 11:53 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, the eatsoap scripts don't read the joystick at all. But maybe
> you're referring to platform specific keys?
>
> On PC, Space to bubble doesn't work. Is that what you mean? It's because
> of this line in "handle keys":
>   if(any player menu key || keyval(key:Enter) >> 1) then(pause menu)
> That hits bug 1106 https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues/1106
> I forgot to put the bug on my todo list! I definitely wanted to fix that
> one too.
>
> However even with that bugfix, it looks like joystick controls on PC
> aren't going to work, and they never worked, so that's OK. I'm not sure
> whether mobile & console gamepad controls will work.
>
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 09:49, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> > 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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