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[split] Peripheral Input Documentation - garbear - 2015-04-21
EDIT: See updated documentation at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=230276
The peripheral input system allows keyboards and game controllers to control Kodi, game add-ons, and button mapping utilities. The documentation is a series of procedures:
1. Scanning keyboards and joysticks
2. Mapping a button
3. Mapping a keyboard key
4. Handling joystick event
Joystick events are mapped to virtual game controller (using button map data). Controller input is then:
* sent to a game add-on, or
* converted to an action and sent to Kodi
5. Handling keyboard events
Keyboards are abstracted as joysticks with many buttons so that joystick input handlers can be re-used. Kodi input is handled elsewhere, so keyboard input is only sent to game add-ons.
The full system in all its glory
EDIT: Split thread, updated diagrams
RE: Input - zag - 2015-04-21
Wow a developer who actually documents some stuff, nice
RE: Input - Mettbrot - 2015-04-21
What do they tell ya? There's gold at the end of a rainbow?
Looks like the truth to me.. Awesome work!
RE: [split] Peripheral Input Documentation - garbear - 2015-04-23
split thread, this documentation should be easier to find
RE: [split] Peripheral Input Documentation - sarbes - 2015-04-24
Out of curiosity: how do you manage features like rumble or force feedback?
RE: [split] Peripheral Input Documentation - garbear - 2015-06-23
Rumble is easy, all you gotta do is reverse some arrows in some of these flow charts.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=230276
Instead of input events flowing from the joystick to the game add-on, rumble events would flow from the game add-on to the joystick.