Bug#288432: supertux: Joystick does not work

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:43:57 +0200 Pierre Pronchery wrote:

[...]
> So, basically, if you want supertux tu
> use your joystick as is, use the "-j" flag on the command line (more
> options are available to alter the mapping).
[...]

Hello everyone,
what's the status of this bug?

I tried to use a joypad with supertux myself (on an updated Debian
testing box) and I experienced the issue originally reported by Stefan:

  Warning: Could not open joystick -1.
  The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was:
  There are 1 joysticks available

with supertux basically ignoring any input coming from the joypad.

However, after reading Pierre's reply, I tried with

  $ supertux -j 0

and it seemed to work, even though there's no in-game configuration
menu for joystick/joypad input.
By the way, I see that there's the --joymap XAXIS:YAXIS:A:B:START
command-line option, but it's not clear to me what I should specify
as its argument... Is anyone able to clarify?

Then I tried again without the -j 0 command-line option

  $ supertux

and it seemed to be magically able to find and use my joypad.
Awkward... Why was it unable to find it before?!?

Anyway, I am not sure I understand what Pierre's patch is supposed to
do.
Has it already been applied?
If not, why?
Has it already been forwarded upstream?
If not, why?

Is there any chance that supertux gets a proper in-game configuration
menu for joypad input?

Please let me know, thanks for your time.

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