On the fly gamepad support

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. If you have a gamepad or device like it with 12 or so buttons you are not 
fully able to play the game. For example timers cannot be used while there are 
just not enough buttons. Also the setting up of the device by team is not that 
easy.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would like to see a gamepad profile option in the GUI which would hold 
predefined buttons for a gamepad (or several different models of gamepads). The 
buttons could be somehow like in the Playstation 3's remake version of the 
original Worms. (I think it is this game 
http://us.playstation.com/games-and-media/games/worms-ps3.html)

So I guess the gamepad would have to hold at least as many button as the 
Playstation gamepad holds so you could play the game.

One idea on how to reduce the amount of needed buttons is to make the timer  
button so that the button does not define the seconds exactly but it changes is 
to bigger value like 3->4->5->1->2->3. This way one button could be used to 
give any value.  

The buttons and idea could be cruelly copied from the Playstation's Worms. It 
works pretty fine.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm running Linux Ubuntu 10.10 with the version 0.9.15-1 of Hedgewars.

Please provide any additional information below.
Better gamepad support would be nice while playing Hedgewars on HTPC and on LCD 
TV with your friends. Passing on the keyboard is just not as comfortable as the 
gamepad. Also if you've got new players joining the setting of the gamepad is 
currently quite the pain in the ass. 

And with gamepad I mean a device somewhat like this on this web site: 
http://www-mp3.us/logitech-gamepad

By the way. I just Love Hedgewars. It is just the kind of fun I have been 
looking for my HTPC. Previously I had Worms Plus running on DosBox and that 
didn't give me much respect :)

Thanks

_teelmo_

Original issue reported on code.google.com by teemo.te...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2011 at 10:37

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Smaxx added controller support some time ago.  I guess the question is how good 
is the SDL support for your controller, although I haven't looked into his code 
much.

Original comment by kyberneticist@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2011 at 3:26

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I don't think this has to do with the SDL support. I mean that the current 
implementation is not that usable. It would be good if you could just choose 
gamepad as a input device and switch back to keyboard if you like.

So this is not a bug report but more a feature request :)

Original comment by teemo.te...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2011 at 8:13

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Original comment by vittorio...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2011 at 10:04

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Thirded. As it is, players have to work pretty hard to get a gamepad to work, 
and switching back to keyboard is rough too. Even just being able to save 
button assignment schemes would go a long way.

Original comment by ssdown...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2011 at 5:47

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Original comment by sheepyluva on 19 Jul 2011 at 6:15

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please allow for fine adjustements of xbox controller, not just binary movement

Original comment by avgu...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2013 at 6:23