✔️ NEW FEATURE: Control Mapping

[Krishty]

I’ve started this in 2019 and it’s still not finished. The required API changes are almost done, though.

For the first release, there will be no GUI for remapping the controls. There will be is only GUI for displaying the current mapping, and you’ll have to go to the registry if you want to change it. I guess that’s a fair compromise between “help my joystick doesn’t work” and “we should release something this decade” …

Listing this here because it’s one of the things I definitely want to get done before a public release.

[Krishty]

It took forever but it’s almost finished.

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Need to do a bit more testing; iron out a few small bugs.

Control handling in extensions has become much easier.

[Krishty]

I think it’s done. I’ll merge it into the repository soon.

There’s room for improvement, but later so. I can fly with my keyboard, my joystick, my game pad. Primary target reached.

[Krishty]

A tiny little problem is the name of the currently selected profile not showing:

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But the solution is a matter that experts still need to find agreement on, so I won’t let that stop this ticket from being closed.

This feature is merged, but it’s too late to push the repository. Will do that tomorrow.

[mikew]

I was just about to throw out that now 20 year old Logitech FF joystick that we were having so much trouble with identifying axes 10 years ago. I'll rescue it for now...

[Krishty]

I was just about to throw out that now 20 year old Logitech FF joystick that we were having so much trouble with identifying axes 10 years ago. I'll rescue it for now...

Oh yes, please keep it around for a bit! I’ll follow up with instructions on how to flip axes this evening …

[Krishty]

Feature is implemented.

I’ll post a tutorial and some instructions for nasty joysticks when I find the time!

[mikew]

I'm getting an almost immediate crash with this latest release. I have no controller attached right now.

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[Krishty]

Fix on the way.

In TFXplorer.cpp, line 1084, before the closing brace, add:

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result.current = &defaultProfile;

[mikew]

Yes, that works!

[Krishty]

I found that sometimes, the control configuration dialog will look like this:

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There is a memory leak which, in addition to the graphical artifacts, makes the dialog slower with each invocation.

Will be fixed in the next version.

[Krishty]

Fix has landed.