x414e54
It is a bit of a pain to update the library or rely on whatever version the user has on their computer for default mappings.
So providing an easily updatable text file via SDL_GameControllerAddMappingsFromFile is still currently the most viable way. However using this replaces all mappings provided by the SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG environment variable which may have come from the user's custom Steam mapping.
There should be an easy way for games to supply extra game controller mappings to fill in the differences between SDL versions without it clobbering the SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG environment variable.
Internally the mappings could use a priority system and if the priority is lower then it will not overwrite the mappings.
For now it just assumes SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG is the highest priority, the default hardcoded are the lowest and anything set via the API is medium.
ny00
Unfortunately, simply checking the return codes of "onNativePadDown/Up" as previously done has its own issue:
If an SDL joystick is connected *and* opened, then a proper KeyEvent, say with keycode KEYCODE_BUTTON_1, should lead to an SDL joystick button event as expected.
If, however, the joystick was *not* opened, then "onNativePadDown/Up" will return a negative value, so before the commit from bug 3426, you could unexpectedly get a keyboard event. (In practice, you'll just get a log message, since KEYCODE_BUTTON_1 has no mapping to a proper SDL_ScanCode value, but it's still an problem).
What should still be done, though, is checking the key code itself. We do have the KeyEvent.isGamepadButton method, but according my test, it returns "true" exactly (and only) for the KEYCODE_BUTTON* values, and not for KEYCODE_DPAD* or any other key code.
Here is a possible solution:
- Do check the return codes of "onNativePadDown/Up" as previously done.
- In addition, in "Android_OnPadDown/Up" from src/joystick/android/SDL_sysjoystick.c, 0 should *always* be returned in case the key code can be translated to an SDL_joystick button; Even if no matching joystick can be found.
Jan Klass
Not sure if this is limited to the joystick subsystem,
but I created a minimal program for reproducibility,
which is attached.
The issue occurs with my gamepad Razer Onza (an xbox-style gamepad) plugged in.
On initialization, the gamepad is being recognized.
After quitting the subsystem, the poll will receive the joystick added event,
which it instantly handles itself, calling SDL_SYS_JoystickDetect again,
which this time calls IDirectInput8_EnumDevices with dinput = NULL (after it was released on quit).
This seems to lead to an access violation within said function, which I have no source for.
Ryochan7
I have been using SDL 2 for a little project that I have been developing for a while. My project is called antimicro and it takes gamepad input and then translates gamepad events into keyboard and mouse events. SDL is used to read the input from an XInput gamepad and it works great for the most part. However, there is one glaring problem that I have encountered.
When a device is unplugged and SDL sends the centered value release events for all axes, buttons, and hats, SDL does not use the proper centered value for the triggers. It pushes an SDL_JOYAXISMOTION event onto the queue with a value of 0 for all axes. That value is converted to around 16,000 for a Game Controller. That value is incorrect for triggers and, in my program, that causes any bindings that are assigned to the triggers to get activated. With most profiles, that will typically mean that a mouse right click and left click will be activated before the device is finally seen as removed and then those bindings are released by antimicro.
Machiel van Hooren
In SDL_dxjoystick.c line 349 there is a constant c_dfDIJoystick2.
However, this constant is aparently also defined in dinput8.lib.
I encountered a linking error when statically linking to SDL:
SDL2_static.lib(SDL_dxjoystick.obj) : error LNK2005: _c_dfDIJoystick2 already defined in dinput8.lib
My application is also linking to dinput8.lib because we rolled our own joystick input and are not using the joystick functionality from SDL.
ny00
On Android, the keycodes KEYCODE_BUTTON_1..16 (actual values 188-203) are translated to SDL_Joystick buttons no. 20-35. These are currently ignored in SDL_gamecontroller.c.
The attached patch fixes this, by increasing k_nMaxReverseEntries from 20 to another arbitrary bound of 48.
Side-note: Maybe some log should be emitted in case of going over any such bound?
SFC30 controller: http://www.8bitdo.com/sfc30/
The SFC30 controller can present itself in a variety of modes and it offers up
different names in each. This patch captures data for three modes (one USB and
two Bluetooth) on three platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux).
However, USB mode on Linux and Windows is missing as the button events did not
make it through to SDL's controllermap tool on Fedora 24/Linux 4.5.5 nor Steam
Big Picture mode on Windows. The two Bluetooth modes were indistinguishable on
Windows. Two modes on OS X were indistinguishable.
There exists a similar controller called the SNES30 (And some others) that are
very likely identical except for the name, but I have not verified this yet so
haven't synthesized lines for those controllers until I can.
The Apple TV remote is currently exposed as a joystick with its touch surface treated as two axes. Key presses are also generated when its buttons and touch surface are used.
A new hint has been added to help deal with deciding whether to background the app when the remote's menu button is pressed: SDL_HINT_APPLE_TV_CONTROLLER_UI_EVENTS.
Author: James Zipperer <james.zipperer@synapse.com>
Date: Sun Aug 21 01:19:19 2016 -0700
bugfix for controller / joystick add / remove being in the event queue at the same time
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) breaks the method uses that SDL uses to
detect XInput devices. That is, on Windows 10 Anniversary Update, it is no longer
possible to query RAWINPUT for HID devices, and check for "IG_" in the device name.
Presumably, this will be fixed in the future.
This patch works around the issue by adding the Xbox One controller series to the
well-known device list.
This skips the more expensive RAWINPUT check for those devices, and causes them to
be detected as XInput devices once again.
This allows us to set an explicit stack size (overriding the system default
and the global hint an app might have set), and remove all the macro salsa
for dealing with _beginthreadex and such, as internal threads always set those
to NULL anyhow.
I've taken some guesses on reasonable (and tiny!) stack sizes for our
internal threads, but some of these might turn out to be too small in
practice and need an increase. Most of them are simple functions, though.
