[pygame] solving a few event problems

["Brendan Becker" <tgz@orotech.net>]

Okay, these aren't really problems per se, but I'm looking for better ways to do each of the following, and was hoping someone had run into this before:

1) Is there an easy way to initialise, say, all joysticks at once? I mean, sure, I could do:

  totaljoy = pygame.joystick.get_count()
  if totaljoy > 0:
    joy1 = pygame.joystick.Joystick(1)
    joy1.init()
  if totaljoy > 1:
    joy2 = pygame.joystick.Joystick(2)
    joy2.init()
  ........

but it sure as hell would be nice if I could create a list of joysticks or something like that and not have to worry about doing that for every single joystick, so I could just do something like:

  for i in range( pygame.joystick.get_count() )
    j.append( pygame.joystick.Joystick(i) )
    j[len(j)-1].init()

I realise this might not be valid code, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do. The idea is that there might be up to 8 or more controllers plugged into this box, and I don't want to initialise them individually.

2) I'm looking for an easy way to save events, like with a keymapper. For instance, think a controls configuration menu in a game, going through and customising your controls, where you click on a certain description of a control "Move Up" and then press the up key. Sure, I could save event.key's value to a file or something. But what if "move up" could be a keypress OR a buttonpress? I don't want to say:

  if ev.type == KEYDOWN:
    savedevent = "KEY "+repr(ev.key)
  if ev.type == JOYBUTTONDOWN:
    savedevent = "JOY "+repr(ev.button)
  ....

I'd like a simple way to just say:

  if (ev.type == KEYDOWN) or (ev.type == JOYBUTTONDOWN)
    savedevent = event

then I could load the event in:

  evmoveup = mainconfig.load("moveup")

and pull it straight from a configuration file without having to think about it.

Okay, enough hot air. I'll go back to coding now =]

B
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