[Development] some questions about QtGamePad

[Bogdan Vatra]

Hi,

  From a gamepad perspective it's almost complete. Yes I know that there are 
gamepads out there with more buttons, QtGamepad it's a technical preview, so 
we can change it. IMHO we just need to add a few more generic buttons/axes and 
that's it.

 I also agree with Mike that Qt needs some "generic" input device support, 
something similar with Android's InputDevice API 
(http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/InputDevice.html), but 
that's another story.

Cheers,
BogDan.

On Monday 15 February 2016 14:08:56 Mike Krus wrote:
> +1, looking at it from the AppleTV remote perspective, it also needs support
> for handling device orientation (tilt sensors, etc)
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> > On 15 Feb 2016, at 11:36, pritam.ghanghas at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have looking at QtGamePad for usage in another opensource project
> > QGroundControl. It looks like a great module already, something that will
> > reduce lot of cross platform headache for a lot of people trying to use
> > joysticks with Qt. Awesome work by the authors.
> > 
> > Looking at the API it seems it has a very hard assumption on 2 sticks and
> > 18 buttons.  It is quite possible that QGrounControl may have to support
> > more than 2 sticks. Its quite common for robotics controller to have more
> > than 2 sticks in the form of other photometers. It would be good if some
> > more lower level cross platforms apis were exposed that allow one to
> > enumerate the sticks and buttons. Something that can give us more raw
> > data to handle such special cases.
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