how to implement mouse right click behavior

[litchie]

By default, all touches will be translated into mouse events (left button). But U7 needs right click to navigate around. I am thinking that there will be a toggle button at the bottom of screen. When you turn it on, touch events will be treated as right clicks.

Another question: is mouse over event important in game playing?

[DominusExult]

I was thinking that at least on the ipad (and mini) size it would perhaps make sense to implement an overlay d-pad to navigate instead of the left click finger. And maybe an option to toggle between original (touch events and button to switch) and new way (overlay dpad and right click touch event)? What do you think of that? There is also the issue that the movement speed is normally dependent of how far away the cursor is "dragged" from the Avatar. Maybe another toggle button for movement speed?

[DominusExult]

AFAIK there is no mouse over event, btw.

[litchie]

If we got DPad, then right click touch isn't really necessary, right?

[DominusExult]

I'm probably confusing either left or right click but the one to move is not needed anymore. I think...

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If we got DPad, then right click touch isn't really necessary, right?

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[litchie]

The latest build has a transparent dpad on the right side of screen.

[DominusExult]

After playing a bit, I wonder if it can be done a bit different (while keeping the dpad):

• holding down one finger functioning like holding down the right mouse button -> Avatar follows the finger
• tapping one finger, as right now, a left click
• tapping with two fingers -> pathfind to this spot (as in the Gameplay options: right click pathfinds)

[DominusExult]

probably something like what you did in Dospad https://github.com/litchie/dospad/commit/abd950196792df7dfe3ddfa1db9000adb12aba66

[litchie]

I agree, double tap seems to be a really good way to work around this problem, a life saver for finding path.

[DominusExult]

After having my 12 years old nephew play a bit, it's clear that my above movement ideas are the way to go besides the dpad. He really struggled an expected there to be some kind of one finger movement.

(He also quickly lost interest because he couldn't kill Iolo right away, nor an unlocked door and the guards made short work of him... Also "reading all this English stuff? Noooooo waaaaaaayyyyyy!")

[litchie]

double tap as right click? Will try to port that over.

[DominusExult]

And is moving by holding down the finger feasible?

[litchie]

Currently holding down a finger is like holding the mouse left button. Technically it may be possible if we want to interpret short clicks as left button, and long holds as right button. But I am not sure that it won't cause other problems.

[DominusExult]

"I don't see any possible problem!" Famous last words on the Titanic ;) It might be worth a shot, though.

[DominusExult]

GemRB is using touch events for movement, see https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb/blob/master/gemrb/plugins/SDLVideo/SDL20Video.cpp#L475

[DominusExult]

@litchie the more and more I use Exult on iOS, it proves that the movement via the d-pad and passing on the numpad keys to move the player is not the best solution. It works somewhat, and with 770fa3c (using code of your Dospad project) it has become much better. But even better would be: A joypad that behaves like mousemovement. In Exult when you move the player through the mouse, the center is the middle of the screen, the player, and then he moves in the direction you move the mouse while holding down the right mouse button. The further away the mouse from the center, the faster he goes. So that sounds as if that could work. When you touch the joypad, the right mouse button is emulated and then it just behaves like it normally does, the further away from the middle of the joypad, the faster the player moves. Looking at the code of Dospad, I think you could make this happen. For me it would take another two years of staring at code to make it somewhat happen...