As suggested by Zapper in this posting: http://forum.openclonk.org/topic_show.pl?pid=31073#pid31073.
This way is probably the only way item usage will ever work on Q. For now, this reverses the previous changes. Q will again react on key down.
This makes a very fundamental change with quick switch: The switching action is now performed on the key release instead of the key press. Let's see if this performs badly for players.
- Crosshair doesn't work with a dpad anymore. Supporting dpads adds
unnecessary complexity, as a gamepad user with dpad will never be
competitive with mouse users.
- Crosshair isn't bound to item usage anymore, but will always show
when the analog stick is outside of a deadzone.
Future planned feature: Also use the actual strength to allow
distance input in addition to direction. This is used heavily by
Knüppeln.c4s.
- Add assignments for switching interaction and pickup targets (just
like the keyboard control).
- Remove double assignments of the sticks for walking and aiming. The
left stick is now exclusively for walking and the right stick
exclusively for aiming.
This also removes the controller id from the control definitions,
instead defaulting to 0. This doesn't change anything for now as we only
had definitions for controller 0 anyways.
With the SDL_GameController interface, buttons and axes have actual
names we can refer to. This also allows for advanced mappings using both
sticks (this probably needs script changes) as well as the triggers.
The player interface is now similar to how picking up works. This should increase acceptance. Also it was pretty fucked up before. The action bar is gone.
The script logic is now outsourced into a new library similar to the other stuff.
Objects can overload the selector for the new interaction (see "call elevator case").
Additional issues hit and resolved when working on this:
Shifting a cursor did not cancel certain actions (and there was no callback for that). This is now solved by adding two new callbacks.
Issues hit and not resolved:
Certain interactions (calling an elevator case, flipping a construction) are in some control library. They should be in the respective objects (and shown via callbacks etc.). Meh.
The internal interface (declaring interactions etc) has a few places where proplists are just translated because the properties are called differently. This is also a fuckup (i.e. a.interaction_object = b.Object) where the properties should just have been called the same in all places from the beginning.
The name "Action Bar" is pretty misleading now as it is no bar. But that's not something visible to the players. todo: cleanup.
One of Sven's private functions. I also renamed the control to CON_ModifierMenu1 (from CON_ModifierInventory1), because it's actually supposed to be the menu modifier in general - even if it's mapped on the inventory key.
Or more generally: added support for any modifier key for any other command without the requirement to define a new command based on the old one plus the key. This can be helpful in situations where the player commands are decoupled from the script engine control handling (e.g. with menus).
Currently Shift+Click is only used by the inventory menu to transfer all items of a certain kind.
Shift instead of Ctrl is more consistent with dropping items, which is on Shift+Number. Incidentally you can now also decide to drop an item to make space for a new one DURING the collection process. Really rather rad.
People have complained that the implicit roll (if you don't know how it worked) could lead to death and severe injury. The roll is now explicit. Always and everywhere.
It doesn't have any other effect though; todo: reduce hit area and/or squash vertices of Clonk during roll
Lukas Werling