Re: [gamepad] Haptic Feedback/Controller Vibration

Every controller is an assemblage of input and output hardware. It's vastly
much easier to to oversee what kind of devices you'll get which are:

   - Buttons (down or up)
   - Axes (scalar value)
   - Rumbles (speed)
   - Motors (negative/positive force and/or scalar value for position)
   - Screens (bitmap)
   - Lights (intensity and/or color)
   - Touchpads (touch events)
   - Text displays (text)

That's not a "monolythic API", that's how every other game controller API
in existence on any platform works (like evdev, DirectInput, etc.). The
attempt to wrap specific usecases is what is a monolythic monster API that
tries to be everything and the kitchensink in the end.


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>wrote:

> On 03/04/2014 16:43, Florian Bösch wrote:
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>> But even so, what do you want to end up with?
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> What do YOU want to end up with? A single monolithic API that covers each
> imaginable type of controller (which may also feature output components
> like additional lights, OLED displays, etc)?
>
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