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stephena 978c97c2d0 Removed the ability to emulate the mouse cursor with the joystick while in GUI menu mode. The code was too troublesome to fix, and navigating a GUI with a joystick simulating a mouse is a broken concept anyway. In place of joy-is-mouse navigation, added the ability to use the cursor keys or joysticks axes to 'tab' between different focused objects in GUI mode. This is much more intuitive, and is how navigation works in a mouse-less, game console based system. Also, any joystick button (or enter/space keys) activate the currently focused item. For now, only the CommandDialog can be accessed this way. It really only makes sense here anyway, since many GUI objects in the other menus really need access to a keyboard and mouse, and if you have those, one can already navigate the menu. Overall, this should make arcade cabinet style access much easier. One can map the CommandDialog to a joystick button, navigate with the joystick axes, and select an item with any joystick button. So Stella can be started, play a game, and then exit, all by just using the joystick. It also solves quite a few usability problems for the WinCE and PSP ports. git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/stella/code/trunk@918 8b62c5a3-ac7e-4cc8-8f21-d9a121418aba	2005-12-19 02:19:49 +00:00
CVSROOT	Add syncmail as a admin file to checkout.	2001-12-27 20:02:13 +00:00
stella	Removed the ability to emulate the mouse cursor with the joystick while	2005-12-19 02:19:49 +00:00

stephena 978c97c2d0 Removed the ability to emulate the mouse cursor with the joystick while

in GUI menu mode.  The code was too troublesome to fix, and navigating
a GUI with a joystick simulating a mouse is a broken concept anyway.

In place of joy-is-mouse navigation, added the ability to use the cursor
keys or joysticks axes to 'tab' between different focused objects in
GUI mode.  This is much more intuitive, and is how navigation works in
a mouse-less, game console based system.  Also, any joystick button (or
enter/space keys) activate the currently focused item.

For now, only the CommandDialog can be accessed this way.  It really
only makes sense here anyway, since many GUI objects in the other menus
really need access to a keyboard and mouse, and if you have those, one
can already navigate the menu.

Overall, this should make arcade cabinet style access much easier.  One
can map the CommandDialog to a joystick button, navigate with the joystick
axes, and select an item with any joystick button.  So Stella can be
started, play a game, and then exit, all by just using the joystick.  It
also solves quite a few usability problems for the WinCE and PSP ports.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/stella/code/trunk@918 8b62c5a3-ac7e-4cc8-8f21-d9a121418aba

2005-12-19 02:19:49 +00:00

CVSROOT

Add syncmail as a admin file to checkout.

2001-12-27 20:02:13 +00:00

stella

Removed the ability to emulate the mouse cursor with the joystick while

2005-12-19 02:19:49 +00:00