[sldev] adding support for a new input device to the SL viewer

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:46 +0200, Maurizio de Pascale wrote:
> additionally, what is the best way to proceed:
> 1) use the new device state to generate and post mouse messages on the
> queue and have them handled as coming out from the mouse?
> 2) calling directly the handleMouseXXX methods?
> 3) ignoring the mouse input handling and calling directly "what's called
> from" handleMouseXXX methods to have viewer react accordingly?
> 
> at a first glance, for the long term, having a class like
> LLViewerJoystick looks like the way to go. Am I right?

The entire input layer needs to be abstracted such that events from
joysticks, keyboards, gamepads, mice and whatever else can be quickly
and easily bound to any function desired. Like you can do in Quake,
Doom, Unreal, Half Life and pretty much every other game on the planet.
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