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Yeah we use Xbox's button names, and the indices of all standard buttons match up with the ButtonName enum in order to be a conformant implementation of our Input API. An input backend may define more non-standard buttons if they're available, though.

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I can definitely see the appeal of this, but I don't think we can implement it as properties. We'd probably have to do Gamepads[0].Buttons.GetA(). Is this still desirable?

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It would be great :D I am looking forward to see this in library

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Is there a standard for naming gamepad buttons?

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If you mean an industry-global standard, no. But for Silk.NET, the agreed-upon proposal for Silk.NET's button names are available here: https://github.com/Ultz/Silk.NET/blob/master/documentation/proposals/Proposal%20-%20Input.md#buttonname

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So the same ButtonName may refer to buttons in different physical locations, depending on the brand of the controller?

And since said enum exists, what about Gamepads[0].Buttons[ButtonName.A]?

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Ah right. The ButtonName enum is mapped to its GLFW index, so it's mapped to whatever physical button GLFW maps it to :D

The only reason it's Gamepads[0].Buttons[(int) ButtonName.A] and not Gamepads[0].Buttons[ButtonName.A] is because the IReadOnlyList<Button> interface requires an int indexer, and I'm not sure if we want to create our own interfaces for each IReadOnlyList usage just so we can have these indexers.

When extension everything is added, we will consider adding strong-typed indexes. See also: dotnet/csharplang#192

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Oh, I was assuming Buttons[int] would be accessing a button by the index it's exposed as through the.. driver, I assume? And Buttons[ButtonName] would instead change depending on layout. Such that, for example, 0 => ButtonName.A on XBox-style controllers, but ButtonName.B on Nintendo or ButtonName.X on PlayStation controllers. (Though, then there's Triangle and Square, ...)

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