Tactile - a nice, straightforward input library!

[Tesselode]

I should probably mention a rewrite of Tactile I released recently. The library has been simplified in general; now all detectors are just functions, which makes it easy to write your own. So yeah, that's cool!

[airstruck]

now all detectors are just functions

Heh, sounds familiar

Seriously though, good job on this rewrite. I like the new simplified API and the code looks great. I might have to find an excuse to use this soon.

[Tesselode]

now all detectors are just functions

Heh, sounds familiar

Seriously though, good job on this rewrite. I like the new simplified API and the code looks great. I might have to find an excuse to use this soon.

Yeah, at first I doubted you, but then I came around.

[Tesselode]

Version 1.1 is out!

Changes:

• Axes now have individual deadzones which you can set using the variable axis.deadzone. The global property tactile.deadzone has been removed. Axes have a default deadzone of 50%.
• Detectors that use the joysticks now refresh the list of joysticks whenever they run. tactile.rescan has been removed, as it is no longer needed.
• With the above two changes, tactile no longer has any global state. I'll take kikito's word for it that that's a good thing.
• Axes and buttons now iterate through their detectors using a standard for loop instead of pairs, so performance should be better and the order detectors are checked in should be more predictable.
• Added some simple error checking.

[alberto_lara]

Nice work, I'll take a look.

[Tesselode]

Version 1.2 is out! This is a small update. You can now pass a deadzone to Axis:getValue(), and it will use that deadzone instead of the axis' deadzone property. This is good if you want to disable the deadzone and do your own deadzone handling or something/

[D0NM]

Nice lib, but it doesn't work with 0.10.1 LOVE2D

fix main.lua @line 128:

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mouseLeft = tactile.mouseButton(1)

Also, with your sample main.lua
I can see UP + DOWN + RIGHT and LEFT + DOWN + RIGHT keys combination.

[Tesselode]

Nice lib, but it doesn't work with 0.10.1 LOVE2D

fix main.lua @line 128:

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mouseLeft = tactile.mouseButton(1)

Also, with your sample main.lua
I can see UP + DOWN + RIGHT and LEFT + DOWN + RIGHT keys combination.

There's no reason why up + down and left + right shouldn't work; they're separate buttons. Now with axes, they would cancel each other out. Also, up + down + left + right should all work at once, but it's common to only be able to push 3 arrow keys at once because most keyboards have certain combinations of keys they won't process all at once.

Anyway, I'm gonna work on a fix for main.lua now, it should take like 5 minutes. Nice catch!

[D0NM]

I'm choosing an input lib still...

I need an abstraction level to RECORD / PLAYBACK some cut-scenes and such.
Also I need some BOOBS.lua like key-combo-binding stuff..

With some decorator pattern it could be implemented with Tactile.
I used to make everything from scratch all the time.

[Tesselode]

I would have a class/file somewhere that checks and records the input. It doesn't even have to interfere with your gameplay code, you can just access all your controls from wherever you want.