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List:       ggi-develop
Subject:    RE: [ggi-develop] "Point of View" controls
From:       "Peter Ekberg" <peda () axentia ! se>
Date:       2004-08-07 19:26:32
Message-ID: 90459864DAD67D43BDD3D517DEFC2F7D704D () axon ! Axentia ! local
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Andy wrote:

> Peter Ekberg wrote:
> > > What's wrong about a single valuator just giving degrees?
> > With a single valuator, there's no way to specify the special case
> > "no direction". Or is there?
> 
> Not really. Though I would split that conceptually into a button that
> says "direction control on" and the actual direction.

I suppose that's probably a better option that using two valuatore.
One drawback remains; the app has to reconnect the two values. I
suppose that's a configuration issue.

> Or we could give a value outside the reported min/max range, but that 
> sounds like asking for trouble.

I thought of that, but it's probably not good. I read some gii docs
stating that you had to be prepared for values outside the given
valuator range. I therefore consider that path closed due to backward
compatibility reasons.

> Yet another silly question: What does one map to such a device?
> Currently can't think of something I'd want to use it for, but maybe
> I've been away from games for too long :-).

Oh, it's not a separate device. On this link the POV is the top center
knob of the four knobs on the top of the stick.
http://www.chproducts.com/retail/usb_flight_stick.html

They typically control which way you are viewing or similar function.

In the example above with an 8-way POV, the user can only give
one of - you guessed it - eight angles.

Cheers,
Peter



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