Joystick hat constants

SDL Development
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Hey, does anyone have code that would be seriously broken if we changed
the joystick hat constants?

Ack, Heavy Gear II.

Anyway, here is the comment:

Also pondering adding sdl joystick handling, but I was somewhat confused
by the SDL_JoystickGetHat comments in SDL/SDL_joystick.h. The return values
seem pretty arbitrary and hard to manage. Wouldn’t it be a easier to have
defines like SDL_HAT_LEFT, etc… then instead
of this have this
8 1 2 SDL_HAT_LEFT|SDL_HAT_UP SDL_HAT_UP SDL_HAT_RIGHT|SDL_HAT_UP
7 0 3 SDL_HAT_LEFT 0 SDL_HAT_RIGHT
6 5 4 SDL_HAT_LEFT|SDL_HAT_DOWN SDL_HAT_DOWN SDL_HAT_RIGHT|SDL_HAT_DOWN

I can easily enough add 8 symbolic constants that people can check against.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

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You know, I was wondering what the hell those got set to when I was
writing the joystick code for SoF. I even ended up poring through the
kernel source at the joystick structures to see what happens…

m.On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:20:48PM -0800, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Hey, does anyone have code that would be seriously broken if we changed
the joystick hat constants?

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