Hello,
A problem that is often asked on forums is how to use a gamepad with qt. Or how
to integrate Qt with SFML or SDL to use a gamepad
As this is a request recurring, it would be interesting to provide gamepad
support in Qt?
Several approaches would be possible:
1. integrated into the core to generate events gamepad (like the keyboard or
mouse)
2. create specific classes
3. create classes for Qt Sensors
The third solution would be my preference.
The gamepad does not work (a priori) like the keyboard or mouse, you must read
the values at regular interval. To test that, I'm writing an API,
intermediate between MouseArea ( gamepadX, gamepadY, gamepadZ, pressedButtons,
etc) and Timer (interval, start, restart, stop, running). I also added a class
for managing multiple pad (GamepadManager) and a widget to display the values
of the pad (GamepadWidget). If it is worth adding that in Qt, I will send
Thank you for your opinion
Guillaume Belz
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