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Development status: alpha (sdli::Device breaking overhauls are unlikely to happen.) Version: 0.1a

Goals of the library

• Easy integration
• Clear, self-explaining usage interface
• Multiplayer input handling in mind
• Game-Development in mind
• Extensible interfaces

Compiler support

• Clang (Requirement for 'master' and 'develop' branch)
• gcc (Requirement for 'master' branch)
• MinGW-w64 (untested - next version probally)
• VS13 MSVC (planned - untested)

Branches

• master: stable build, will contain flags once first working release is out
• develop: contains the latest compile-able version, mostly untested by other people or lacking test code

Conceptual (move to wiki later)

• Processor: represent an interface used by your game engine to get devices and create new contexts. Also handles sdl events. (You can use callbacks to add new functionality to events)
• Device: a handle for the user to interact with the interface, allows disconnected/reconnected devices to work properly
• Interface: represents a single input device (controller/gamepad, mouse+keyboard)
• Context: represents a contextual mapping of a input device
• A device requires an active context (default is no context - as no mapping)
• It is highly advised to use enums (or enum class) as arguments for InputAction, InputAxis, ContextId

Implementation statistics

• Keyboard support [80%] - Lacking: Key-polling for non-axes
• Gamecontroller support [90%] - Lacking multi-controller (One device for any controller)
• Joystick support [0%]
• Mouse support [10%] - generally untested but in work

See samples/ for intended usage. Especially samples/usage

If you find anything lacking tickets, patches and contribution are welcome. (Especially once I start optimization phase.) Multiple library support may be added if concepts are not broken by doing so. (glfw, sfml, mostly requires passing functions)