dMZX Forums: Allow use of key names for joystick bindings instead of raw keycodes -> Archived Requests -> Tracker

As it stands, to map a joystick input to a key, the internal key value (same as KEY_PRESSED) must be provided in the config file. This is irritating to look up for users and it might be nice to have a symbolic way of referring to every key.

Since key names like "0" and "9" would conflict with keycodes (and generic actions as currently implemented for this issue), these names likely need to be prefixed.

Possible examples:

joy1hat = key_up, key_down, key_left, key_right
joy1button1 = key_A
joy1button2 = key_S
joy1button3 = key_3
joy1button4 = key_KP5

Updating status to: Approved
Updating severity to: 1 - Low

After a chat with Spectere we definitely agreed that these would be a good idea (as joystick actions still need to be bound to key constants). Action names are prefixed with "act_" now but the keys 0-9 would still be ambiguous with numeric codes, so "key_[name]" still seems like the best way to go. For simplicity these should be added after the joystick action branch is merged.

Updating status to: Implemented
Issue fixed in: 2.92

Implemented in GIT ce07b092.

Moving to: Archived Requests