Hello, I'm Lucas Fialho Zawacki a Computer Science undergrad at UFRGS university in Brazil. I'm very interested in working with Wine for the Google Summer of Code and have decided to approach the implementation of DirectInput8 missing features. I'm a long time Wine user, but I'd never looked at it from a developer point of view, so for the past few days I have been reading Wine's developer documentation and familiarizing myself with it's architecture and with the parts I intend to work on.
At the moment, I don't have a clear understanding of how the implementation should be done so I'm reading a lot of material about dinput and dinput8 and building some documentation to help me. After some polishing I hope to be able to contribute it to Wine too.
A little word about me. I've been using the C programming language for almost three years, so I'm very familiar with it. For the last two years I've worked on a research project as a C/C++ programmer, implementing a decision system for a F180 Small Size League Robot Soccer Team (see http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/) and http://code.google.com/p/robopet/ . I'm a heavy Linux user and I'm very comfortable with it's tools used for programming.
That's it. I'm eager to get your feedback about this. My proposal will be ready in a few days.
On 03/23/2011 02:52 PM, Lucas Zawacki wrote:
Hello, I'm Lucas Fialho Zawacki a Computer Science undergrad at UFRGS university in Brazil. I'm very interested in working with Wine for the Google Summer of Code and have decided to approach the implementation of DirectInput8 missing features.
Welcome to Wine development!
At the moment, I don't have a clear understanding of how the implementation should be done
There are number of things that are missing in Wine's dinput8. Two that are mentioned on ideas page - Action Mapping and Enumeration by Semantics are more of data gathering then much coding. Of course there are number of stubs that could be implemented as well.
Vitaliy.
The part about semantics is getting clearer to me. Apparently, like Vitality pointed, it's more about relating the joysticks (or "directinput devices") to the various game genres and actions constants defined in the microsoft's dinput.h and then Action Mapping will simply consist of polling all the connect devices and informing the application when a keypress triggers an action.
This page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb172238%28v=vs.85%29.aspx is the best documentation about the subject that I have found until now. Does anyone have another source of info to suggest?
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