Bug#606231: prboom: cannot select joystick buttons beyond 4

[Nicola Manini]

Package: prboom
Version: 2:2.5.0+dfsg1-5
Severity: minor


Once the joystick is enabled, in the keyboard setup one can select the
joystick buttons up to button 4 for actions. In fact, most modern
joystick/gamepads have far more than 4 (e.g. mine has 12), but these sdl
events are just ignored.  Please correct this and allow also joystick
events above button 4 to be assignable to game controls.  In particular the
left and right strife should be assignable to the joystick, not just the
keyboard.  The simple "strife modifier of left/right turn" is much less
practical.  More generally, I think that the user should be allowed to
map any keyboard event of her/his liking to a gamepad button.

Otherwise the joystick is supported beautifully&smoothly, thanx!

All the best,
Nick


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages prboom depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.7.1-4    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]        7.7.1-4    The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2               1.2.8-6+b1 mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-net1.2                 1.2.7-2    network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.14-6.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer

Versions of packages prboom recommends:
ii  freedm [boom-wad]           0.6.4-4      multiplayer-oriented maps for Doom
ii  freedoom [boom-wad]         0.6.4-4      free game files for the 3D game DO
ii  timidity                    2.13.2-39+b1 Software sound renderer (MIDI sequ

Versions of packages prboom suggests:
pn  game-data-packager            <none>     (no description available)

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