Expo makes gamepad stick input non-linear such that small
movements on the stick are less pronounced. This enables
both precise and fast movements, even at higher sensitivity levels.
Expo is applied to all axes equally.
regardless of keyboard layout, with a special exemption for layouts
where that key generates a quote character (like the Brazilian one)
because you may wanna type a quote into the console.
(It's SDL_SCANCODE_GRAVE, that key between Esc, 1 and Tab)
The old hack of matching for ^, ~ and ` in Char_Event() didn't work very
well for layouts we didn't anticipate, which is especially relevant with
the recent Scancode fallback, which for example allows binding the ^ key
on Belgian keyboards (which is on SDL_SCANCODE_LEFTBRACKET, far away
from the "console key"), but in that case would *also* open the console.
This is mostly straight-forward, except for a small hack to prevent the
key from generating text input (on German layouts you otherwise get
"^" in the console when closing+opening it), which requires the
"console key" to be pressed without any modifiers like Shift or AltGr.
Yes, it's ugly, but it works and all the uglyness is contained in
IN_Update() and on the other hand Char_Event() becomes less ugly :)
If we can't map a SDL_KEYDOWN/KEYUP events SDL_Keycode to a known
Quake2 K_* keycode, we try to map the SDL_Scancode to one of the new
K_SC_* YQ2 scancodes instead.
The scancode name corresponds to the key at that position on US-QWERTY
keyboards *not* the one in the local layout, for example the German 'Ö'
key is K_SC_SEMICOLON.
This way (hopefully!) all keys on common keyboards can be bound,
regardless of their layout. The key name won't be immediately obvious
to the user, but it's only a fallback and better than nothing.
fixes#543
this way it's easier to tell if a key constant is not handled.
Also, there was a half-finished workaround to allow binding a ';' key
(which apparently in configs would otherwise be interpreted as
command separator), now that should actually work (=> special case
it in Key_KeynumToString())
Like most other cvars 'sensitivity' allowes for float values. But until
now mouse events were handled as integers which led to some confusing
problems. This was especially noticeable at values lower than 1, small
mouse movements were cut to 0 and discarded. Since the clients movement
code is written in floats and we're already using floats for joystick
movement switch the mouse event handling over to them, too.
This should have any impact on configs were 'sensitivity' is ste to
integral values. If it was set to decimal values the behaviour is now
correct.
This fixes#419.
There's an "enable alt joy keys" command now. If a key is bound to that
command, all joystick buttons (incl. hat and triggers) are turned from
K_JOYx into K_JOYx_ALT, which allows two keybindings on the same key,
one with the altselector pressed and one without.
If there's no keybinding for K_JOYx_ALT, it will use the binding for
just K_JOYx as a fallback (if it exists).
This is especially handy to create direct bindings for all the weapons
on the (limited amount of) Joystick buttons.
The input system backend was once used in the client and the renderers,
but for some years now it has been an integral part of the client only.
Move it there.
