The Wii U Gamecube controller adapter setup has always been a bit weird. It tries to be as automatic as possible to make the user experience as easy
as possible.
The problem with this approach is that it brings a large disconnect in the user experience because you have the Gamecube controller setup with regular
gamepads and then for some reason below that you have a "direct connect" option which will cause the Gamecube Adapter to overwrite the regular inputs
if something was connected.
While this works and allows the user to only click one checkbox to get the device working, it breaks the user's experience because they don't really
know what "direct connect" means and won't look it up to figure out what it is. Just expecting the device to work (At least one occurence of this in
the IRC channel in the last week).
This way around also had the terrible nature of making the code more filthy than it needed to be. The GCAdapter namespace was parasitic and hooked in
to the regular GC Controller SI class to overwrite the data that it was getting from the default configuration.
Now instead we have a specific SIDevice class for the Wii U Gamecube adapter. This class is fairly simple and is a child of the regular SI Gamecube
Pad device and only reimplements what it needs to.
This also gives the ability to configure controllers individually, which allows the user to configure rumble individually per pad input.
Overall the code is cleaner, and it fits more in line with how the rest of Dolphin works.
Prior to this, ConfigMain.cpp was a large (52KB) cpp file that contained all of the UI setting code.
This breaks up the config code into subclasses of wxPanel, which are then just instantiated to add to the settings wxNoteBook. This keeps all the settings categories separated from one another and also cleans up the code in general.
DolphinQt:
* Make the connect() calls explicit, not automatic
* Follow better naming convention for the QActions
* Remove the Open action from the toolbar.
Dolphin[Qt|WX]:
* Move the "Skip Bundle" option to the root CMakeLists so that both DolphinQt and DolphinWX can use it.
This will work for all of our platforms, x86, ARMv7, and AArch64.
Main issue with this is that LLVM's cmake files aren't correctly finding the LLVM install.
Not sure if this is Ubuntu's issue or not, it may just work on other operating systems.
We could potentially improve this, you can pass in a specific CPU in to the LLVM disassembler. This would probably affect latency times that are
reported by LLVM's disassembly? This needs to be further investigated later.
Missed a define in x64MemTools for when the thought process was Android == ARM
Also changes the variable we use for choosing which folders to copy to and from our jni file.
This has changed since the x86_64 build target uses the library folder x86-64, which is stupid and annoying.
Now, the only supported EGL platform is Android. We might eventually add
back support for EGL/X11 or EGL/Wayland, but it will have to be
architected differently.
Yes, this is a fancy new feature, but our Wayland support was
particularly bitrotten, and ideally this would be handled by a platform
layer like SDL. If not, we can always add this back in when GLInterface
has caught up. We might be able to even support wxWidgets and GL
together with subsurfaces!
Restructure our build system so we have multiple targets. Right now we
only build MainNoGUI if we are using X11, since that's the only truly
supported backend: the OS X code actually doesn't compile, according to
comments made on IRC.
It substantially complicates the code and doesn't really provide any
functionality. According to the forums, the Android app is out of date
and has been broken for quite a while.
If we want to add this back, I'd write an app that speaks a more native
Wiimote protocol, and we can hook that up to the backend quite easily.
It could even be over our NetPlay protocol!
Copies over the PP shaders to the APK's assets and installs them on run.
Exposes them via the video settings UI.
This is in anticipation of dropping the workaround for rotated blits on Adreno and instead forcing shader usage by the user.
Ryan Houdek