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

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:06 -0700, Ettore Pasquini wrote:
> - As you know the viewer already uses DirectInput on windows for the flycam.
> On OS X I'm using the HID manager, and I believe there is a library on Linux
> to handle HID devices.
> - I developed an open source library to have a cross-platform API to access
> the device. The implementation is DI on Win and HID on OS X, any other
> platforms can be added by just implementing a few functions. This makes
> viewer code unaware of the underlying implementation.
> - I am refactoring the joystick implementation to use the above library.

Is there a reason you can't just use SDL's joystick layer rather than
reinventing more wheels?
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