Gamepad support

[Nazariglez]

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[midnadimple]

I haven't used it, but gilrs could be a good lib for this.

[Nazariglez]

Hey @midnadimple, the link is broken, is that the right name?

[duckfromdiscord]

gamepad support would be awesome, especially if it continues app.keyboard.was_pressed which made it a lot easier to deal with new presses as opposed to the button already being down

[duckfromdiscord]

@Nazariglez https://crates.io/crates/gilrs

[Nazariglez]

This is me just thinking loud. Is it worth to add this on notan? It feels like something oriented only for games, although I guess is a input device and it makes kind of sense to have support for it at this level... But yeah, I am not sure if it will be a good fit. We can add it under a feature flag, like we do with audio and other features.

What do you think?

[midnadimple]

i feel that even outside the context of games, having general input for devices like gamepads and touchscreens is still pretty important. It allows for other devices like consoles or small TV boxes to use apps with a comfortable device. The feature flag approach is probably the best approach.

[duckfromdiscord]

Feature flag definitely sounds like the way to go 🙂

[Im-Oab]

Gamepad support is one of the features I look for when choosing the framework. :)

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[Nazariglez]

Still happening! Bad bot, give me a break!

[JanzenJohn]

Is this still in considiration / planned for a future release?

[Nazariglez]

It is yes, Notan will have a wrapper on top of gilrs and on top of the web API eventually. Meanwhile, users can use gilrs directly.