[Gambas-user] A fine afternoon for a good rant

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 28/02/2019 à 21:19, Cedron Dawg a écrit :
> You gotta admit that that is not obvious.

I admit.

> 
> Anyway, the source I sent you is pretty much an evdev wrapper.  The
> only things joystick specific about it are the file names it looks
> for and how the return values are handled, e.g. the Gambas events
> raised.
> 

My proposal was to make the C code a non-specific interface to
livevdev, with the device specific thing in the Gambas part of the
component.

For example, gb.dbus is designed a bit like that.

So, concretely, we could imagine a "Joystick" class written in Gambas
that can enumerate all joysticks with some heuristic like in your code,
opens the device file and watch it, send the file descriptor to the C
part, and calls the C part from the read watch handler.

The C part should mainly be a thin layer on libevdev. All the file
opening and descriptor watching is done from the Gambas part.

I think things would be easier that way. What do you think?

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Benoît Minisini