 | | | HID manager - is it worth it? | HID manager - is it worth it? 2004-12-09 - By Seth Willits
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On Dec 9, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Tim Conkling wrote:
> The last time I tackled game input issues on the Mac was back in the
> days of InputSprocket, which I remember being very easy to use. So I'm
> reading the new Pangea book, and the chapter on the HID manager is
> ridiculous (not because Brian is a poor writer, but simply because the
> HID Manager is presented as messy, difficult, and often broken).
>
> Granted, there's a big chunk of code that comes with the book that (I
> hope) is close to a drop-in solution for managing the HID manager.
> However, it sounds like the whole thing is more trouble than it's
> worth, even with the benefit of using somebody else's well-tested
> code: Brian talks about the HID manager magically losing devices,
> confused customers who must be told that the only solution to their
> input problems is to restart their computer, the near-impossibility of
> supporting international keyboards, etc. It all sounds very
> unpleasant.
>
> I have zero experience with the HID manager and I'm interested in
> hearing game developers' experiences and opinions on using it.
Well, I haven't really put the HID manager to use in anything I've
released, but I have worked with it from a derivative of Brian's code.
As all-encompassing as Brian's code was, it was not very... developer
friendly in my opinion, so I spent hours upon hours of rewriting it
into a much more usable form. Granted, I did not retain all of the
functionality but that was because I didn't need it. At any rate, if
you have good plug-and-play code, HID isn't so bad. It really isn't.
But, if you don't have good plug-and-play code, then it's a terrible
nightmare.
That's my perspective from my limited experience,
Seth Willits
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