[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15406: A better way to enable or disable and configure gamepads/joysticks

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#15406: A better way to enable or disable and configure gamepads/joysticks
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Reporter:  LukasThyWalls    |      Owner:  (none)
    Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal           |  Component:  GUI
 Version:                   |   Keywords:  joystick, gamepad, GUI
    Game:                   |
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 Hello.

 The feature request is about putting a better way to make ScummVM allowing
 the use of the joystick, and maybe making it per game enabled/disabled.

 Right now, any option about a joystick appears only if you have a joystick
 plugged in, appearing in ''Global Options'' the ''Control'' tab with
 "''Pointer Speed''" and "''Joy Deadzone''", and right away you can move
 the cursor in ScummVM GUI and inside any game, without do anything more.

 I don't want to use a Joystick with ScummVM right now, but I have a
 gamepad (a Xbox 360 one) for other games always plugged in, and which is
 maybe a bit old and sensitive, so when I use ScummVM It jiggles a little
 bit the cursor. I didn't had issues with other games, I only found this
 with ScummVM, and maybe configuring it a little maybe It moves less or
 anything, but anyway, I don't wanna use the gamepad anyway.

 The only workaround I found to disable the gamepad for ScummVM, is
 launching it with the command line parameter "''--joystick=1''" because if
 there is only one gamepad is detected as 0, the default, so "1" points out
 to an non-existent Joystick, so It doesn't move anymore.

 So going to the points:
 - Use Joysticks by default like It is right now, with the GUI and games.
 - Allow disabling/ignore any joystick input through the ScummVM GUI in
 Global Options to use with the GUI itself.
 - Maybe better if the disable/ignore Joystick option is always there
 instead the appearing only when is a Joystick plugged (unlike the
 "Control" tab works right now, which is something personally I don't like
 to have completely hidden, maybe a greyed out tab and/or content is better
 to me).
 - Allowing to set there in the GUI what Joystick use if there is more than
 one (first one "0" the default as It is now).
 - Allow a "''--joystick=-1''" or something like that as command line
 parameter to allow a setting what never will be used by any Joystick (I
 though about the -1 to maintain backward compatibility as 0 is the first
 one, but It could be whatever is better). Maybe this can be used right
 now, but I didn't tested it.
 - Allow a "Control" tab for each game, maybe with enable/disable
 Joysticks, and which Joystick and "''Pointer Speed''" and "''Joy
 Deadzone''" settings per game. Maybe you don't want to control the GUI
 with a Joystick, but you want to use it with a specific game.

 Thanks in advance.
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/15406>
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