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On 04/19/2011 10:24 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Klaus
Reimer <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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So what about a new select box in the "Misc" options tab
labeled "Input<br>
method". Possible values:<br>
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* Mouse (For using a real mouse. Can even be useful on an
embedded<br>
device when a bluetooth mouse is connected).<br>
* Direct Touchscreen (Works like "Mouse" but adds some
touchscreen<br>
specific features like long-clicks for emulating right mouse
button).<br>
* Touchpad Touchscreen<br>
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This would actually work in well with a discussion I was having
with Strangerke about the Ringworld game last night - there's one
arcade sequence in the game of navigating a sunflower field. On
the PC, it uses the position of the mouse on-screen to indicate
the direction to turn in. But for PDA/Touchscreen devices it might
not be as obvious that users would have to hold the stylus on the
screen to change direction, so I was thinking of adding an
enhancement that would detect if the game was running on such a
device, and add some explicit turning buttons on-screen. <br>
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I am not sure what the real preferred input style on touchscreens
is, but at least when I played Prince of Persia Retro (or whatever
it was called) on my brother's iPhone I was really annoyed by the
button input style. I personally would have liked it much better
when I could just swipe around the screen to get the Prince moving.
Of course I am not sure how that action scene looks like in TsAGE,
but I guess that using buttons for input on a touchscreen is rather
annoying too.<br>
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// Johannes<br>
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