For the mouse in x11, I'm not sure which is more cooked: deltas or
window-relative coordinates, but I don't imagine that really matters too
much. However, keyboard and mouse events suitable for 2D user interfaces
are sent at the same time as the more game oriented button and axis events.
The x11 keyboard and mouse devices are really core input devices rather
than x11 input devices in that keyboard and mouse will be present on most
systems and thus not specific to the main user interface (x11, windows,
etc).
It turns out that calling Sys_Shutdown in the signal handler can cause
lockups due to the signal occurring at unsafe times. Fortunately, this is
just the IO related signals (INT, HUP, TERM, QUIT) as the others are
usually caused by actual errors and should not occur in system code thus
timing should not be an issue. However, care will need to be taken when it
comes to handling SIGINT or similar for breaking runaway progs code when
that time comes.
Now nothing works at all ;) However, that's only because the binding
system is incomplete: the X11 input events are getting through to the
binding system, so now it's just a matter of getting that to work.
Input Mapping Tables are still at the core as they are a good concept,
however they include both axis and button mappings, and the size is not
hard-coded, but dependent on the known devices. Not much actually works
yet (nq segfaults when a key is pressed).
kbutton_t is now in_button_t and has been moved to input.h. Also, a
button registration function has been added to take care of +button and
-button command creation and, eventually, direct binding of "physical"
buttons to logical buttons. "Physical" buttons are those coming in from
the OS (keyboard, mouse, joystick...), logical buttons are what the code
looks at for button state.
Additionally, the button edge detection code has been cleaned up such
that it no longer uses magic numbers, and the conversion to a float is
cleaner. Interestingly, I found that the handling is extremely
frame-rate dependent (eg, +forward will accelerate the player to full
speed much faster at 72fps than it does at 20fps). This may be a factor
in why gamers are frame rate obsessed: other games doing the same thing
would certainly feel different under varying frame rates.
For drivers that support it. Polling is still supported and forces the
select timeout to 0 if any driver requires polling. For now, the default
timeout when all drivers use select is 10ms.
Removing the device from the devices list after closing the device
could cause the device to be double-freed if something went wrong in the
device removal callback resulting in system shutdown which would then
close all open devices.
The device is removed from the list before the callback is called.
There's still a small opportunity for such in a multi-threaded
environment, but that would take device removal occurring at the same
time as the input system is shut down. Probably the responsibility of
the threaded environment rather than inputlib.
I had forgotten that _size was the number of rows in the map, not the
number of objects (1024 objects per row). This fixes the missed device
removal messages. And probably a slew of other bugs I'd yet to encounter
:P
This is the simplest fix for the curses/input initialization order
issue. The terminal io code should still be moved to its own file,
really, but I think it can wait.
As it is now a completely separate sub-system, there is a bit of trouble
with mouse handling in that curses must be initialized before input for
the mouse to work properly, but the basic scheme seems to be working
nicely. I suspect the solution to the init order issue is to make have
the curses sub-system initialize the terminal input driver, at least for
mouse input (ie, maybe just enable/disable mouse handing).
The queues in the curses resources struct have been cleaned up and the
threading support code (including for the queues (pipes, really)) has
been moved to its own file.
The input test app currently just prints the devices and the events as
they come in, but demonstrates the new input system working in a
separate thread (though it is currently in with the curses thread).
This includes device add and remove events, and axis and buttons for
evdev. Will need to sort out X11 input later, but next is getting qwaq
responding.
While QF doesn't currently use nanoseconds, having access to a clock
that is not affected by setting system time is nice, and as a bonus, can
handle suspends should the need arise.
The common input code (input outer loop and event handling) has been
moved into libQFinput, and modified to have the concept of input drivers
that are registered by the appropriate system-level code (x11, win,
etc).
As well, my evdev input library code (with hotplug support) has been
added, but is not yet fully functional. However, the idea is that it
will be available on all systems that support evdev (Linux, and from
what I've read, FreeBSD).
Bill Currie