KEYBOARD LAMP MIRROR (L4KEYLIGHT). Ported from RP412, itself a port of vRIO's
KeyboardLampMirror. Keys bound to a lamp address in bindings.txt glow with the
panel palette through Windows Dynamic Lighting -- yellow for the map's side
columns (0x10-0x1F), red for the rest -- flashing in step with the on-screen
buttons (its LampLevel copy matches the FIXED BTLampBrightnessOf). Per-key
boards light each bound key; zone-lit boards mirror the strongest lamp
board-wide. All WinRT runs on a private worker thread: watcher, claim, and a
100 ms paint loop that repaints only on change.
RP412's packing hazard does NOT transfer: it forces default struct packing there
because its engine is /Zp1, which would break the WinRT ABI. BT411's BT_OPTS
carries no /Zp, so only the dialect flags are needed -- /std:c++17
/permissive- per-file, since the project otherwise builds C++14 /permissive.
The scalars-only interface is kept anyway so the isolation survives if packing
is ever added.
Wired in PadRIO: map built from bindings.keyBindings (ActionButton binds only,
first-binding-wins per key), fed from PadRIO::SetLamp, stopped in the dtor
(which hands the LEDs back to Windows). BT_KEYLIGHT=0 opts out; a machine
without Dynamic Lighting logs once and stays dormant.
Verified live: claimed this machine's 24-zone keyboard and mirrors 25 bound
keys; BT_KEYLIGHT=0 and the pod profile produce zero keylight lines and run
clean.
SHIPPED CONTROLS REFERENCE. docs/CONTROLS.md carries the keyboard table plus
the full 72-BUTTON POD MAP, grouped by the display each bank surrounds, with the
coolant-valve detent warning (1-5-50-CLOSED, one press past max shuts the loop)
and the jam/eject procedure. mkdist flattens it to ASCII as CONTROLS.txt at the
zip root, the README's own idiom. players/README.txt gained pointers to it, to
environ.ini, to -fit, and to the RGB mirror.
KB: context/glass-cockpit.md and docs/GLASS_COCKPIT.md updated for the whole
branch -- layout modes, L4RIOBANK and the under-glass rule, the letterbox fit
and its ordering trap, player-tunable displays, the measured legend grid, the
closed dead-button backlog, and this mirror.
Verified: five-mode regression (surround/exploded/dock/pod/dev) boots and
simulates with zero faults; mkdist writes a 5149-byte pure-ASCII CONTROLS.txt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
LALT -> button 0x3F was bound in both binding layers and PadRIO pushed the RIO
ButtonPressed event correctly, but nothing ever set the mapper's ReverseThrust:
- the authentic route is BTL4.RES 'L4' streamed record [2] (Button Throttle1
0x3F -> attr 6 ReverseThrust@0x124), but our streamed BUTTON mappings are
not consumed at all -- MechControlsMapper::AddOrErase is still the
unreconstructed Fail stub, so the event never reaches the attribute;
- the ONLY writer of reverseThrust was the keyboard bridge's
'key_throttle < 0' test, which is bypassed whenever a RIO is operational
(the pad RIO always is, so the bridge is OFF on the desktop) AND is
unreachable regardless, because L4PADRIO clamps the Throttle channel to
[0,1]. Net: Alt did nothing and the flag was re-zeroed every frame.
FIX: publish the 0x3F hold state from PadRIO::EmitButton -- the one chokepoint
every desktop source funnels through (keyboard, gamepad, DirectInput joystick,
glass-panel clicks via SetScreenButton) -- and apply it in InterpretControls
gated on BTPadRIOActive() so real pod hardware is untouched (there the streamed
mapping owns the flag). Marked [T3]; delete once streamed button mappings land.
Reverse is a HOLD (manual: hold the red throttle button, release = forward).
Verified with scratchpad/revtest.py (keybd_event injection, BT_KEY_NOFOCUS):
forward = rev=0 dmd +61.501; LALT held = rev=1 dmd -61.501; release edge logged.
KB: pod-hardware.md now records the streamed-button-mapping gap + this seam.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0166KTsC7ADm7VXEi1HF1jNg
Field report (new tester, 510): keyboard A/D + arrows 'not working' --
can twist and drive but not turn. Root-caused live via key injection:
fresh spawns start in BASIC control mode, where steering rides the
STICK (authentic rookie mode) and the pedal-bound keys are inert by
design; one M press (MID) makes A/D steer. (A false regression-bisect
chase established the metric noise came from an attached pad's stick
drift nudging BASIC steering.) README now warns about the default
mode; kept the env-gated [padwrite] diagnostic from the hunt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
#39 (field: 'I was able to input before the game screen actually came
up -- fired weapons, moving, could hear the audio'): the simulation
runs during load/wait and PadRIO fed it live input. Poll now emits
only the analog heartbeat until gBTSceneHasPresented -- keyboard, pad
and joystick all stand down; edge state stays parked so keys held
across the boundary press cleanly at first frame. BT_BTNTEST and the
panel-click seam stay live (event injection, same as before).
#40 (field: 'GPU usage during waiting screen is sometimes consuming up
to 45-50%'): ExecuteIdle Cleared+Presented uncapped for the whole join
wait. Now capped at ~40 Hz with a 5 ms sleep on skipped passes (the
overlay's change gate is 12.5 Hz -- nothing visible changes faster).
Regression: 2-node relay round through the wait screen -> load ->
mission (135 in-mission ticks, autofire) -> clean. Awaiting the
reporter's live confirm on both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Night-2 (RajelAran): 'the game is not seeing axis release for turn --
the mech may keep turning when control is released.' Root cause: the
direct-mode axis write was gated on raw != 0, so an axis returning
INSIDE the deadzone just stopped writing and the channel LATCHED at
the last deflection -- fatal on channels with no keyboard spring (the
Turn composite in the twin-stick profile).
Fix: per-binding previous-value tracking (pad + joystick paths); the
outside->inside transition writes 0 exactly once, then the centered
axis leaves the channel to other inputs (composition preserved; slew
bindings excluded by design -- a lever stays where slewed). Plus the
#24 rule, axis edition: a pad/stick that DIES while deflected releases
its direct channels (throttle keeps the last lever position -- safer
than an all-stop mid-fight).
Verified: build + 45s glass mission with an idle XInput pad (no
spurious writes, no regression). The deflect-release cycle itself
needs a human hand -- awaiting RajelAran's next session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tester ask: configure non-Xbox controllers. New L4JOY layer (DI8):
enumerates every non-XInput game device (up to 4), DIJOYSTATE2 polling
with range normalization, reacquire-on-loss, 3s hot-plug re-enum.
XInput devices are excluded via the documented RawInput IG_ VID/PID
check (live-verified skipping a real XBOX360 pad -- no double-feed).
bindings.txt grows joydev/joyaxis/joybutton/joyhat rows (device slots
by name substring or ordinal; axes X..RZ/SL0/SL1 with invert/slew/
deadzone; hats as 4-direction buttons with diagonal chords). PadRIO
runs them through the existing channel/event machinery -- per-binding
edge arrays release automatically on detach (the #24 rule), and a
direct throttle axis maps full lever travel onto the 0..1 channel
while the gait detent still snaps a lever parked in the walk/run dead
band.
BT_JOYCONFIG=1 (joyconfig.bat) runs a console capture wizard: move
each control when prompted (stick/twist/throttle/fire), invert derived
from the move direction, hat look cluster auto-added, output written
between markers in bindings.txt with the rest of the file preserved.
Legacy L4DINPUT DIJoystick (L4CONTROLS=DIJOYSTICK) untouched.
Verified: grammar accept/reject per line, XInput-exclusion live,
30s in-mission no-device polling clean. Awaiting a tester with real
stick hardware for axis verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gamepad players expect stick X = turn; the pod-faithful default maps it
to torso twist, and the pedal pair couldn't take a single signed axis.
New bindings channel "Turn": a signed composite that decomposes into
the pedal pair at the RIO publish (+ = right pedal, - = left), ADDING
to direct pedal bindings so mixed rigs compose, clamped 0..1 per pedal.
The default bindings.txt stays pod-faithful and documents the
twin-stick alternative inline:
padaxis LX axis Turn
padaxis RX axis JoystickX
Also covers the HOTAS ask (any signed axis can now drive turning).
Verified: regenerated defaults carry the doc lines; a twin-stick-edited
bindings.txt parses and boots clean. Awaiting live pad verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
XInput button emission is edge-based against previousPadButtons; the
disconnect path zeroed that memory WITHOUT emitting release edges, so
any button held when a controller (wrapper) died stayed pressed
game-side forever -- and the zeroing also erased what a reconnect would
have released. Field signature (playtest night): a PS3-pad-in-xbox-
mode wrapper died mid-hat-hold -> the look-view machine (hold-based,
mppr) latched a side view with the authored look pitch ("stuck side
view + pitch at ground, no recovery"); the keyboard-only run was clean.
On the connected->disconnected transition PadRIO now emits
EmitButton(address, 0) for every binding whose mask was held, then
forgets. Not reproducible headless (needs a real hardware unplug
mid-hold) -- awaiting the reporter's controller for live verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user held the MFD PROGRAM button and nothing happened (weapons kept
firing). Diagnosis, verified end-to-end:
- The cockpit mouse handler DID register the click ([cockpit] CLICK addr=0x8
press) and 0x8 IS a streamed PROGRAM element (EVENT msg 0x9 -> weapon,
Mfd1 quad page mask).
- But every launch ran the DEV platform profile (no BT_PLATFORM) ->
L4CONTROLS=KEYBOARD -> no PadRIO instance -> PadRIO::SetScreenButton
no-ops (activeInstance NULL) -> the press never entered the RIO queue ->
ConfigureMappables (id 9) never dispatched -> the mode never flipped ->
fire keys kept firing. The config machinery itself was never broken.
- With BT_PLATFORM=glass (the GLASS profile: L4CONTROLS=PAD -> PadRIO), the
full chain now proves out headlessly:
[btntest] PRESS 0x8 -> [cfgmap] ENTER session on ERMLaser_1
mode 0x450421 -> 0x448421 (NonMapping 0x10000 -> Mapping 0x8000)
[btntest] RELEASE 0x8 -> [cfgmap] EXIT (mode restored)
Landed:
- mechweap.cpp: [cfgmap] BT_FIRE_LOG diagnostics in the real
ConfigureMappables/ChooseButton handlers (they were silent -- the G-key
harness had logs but the authentic button path had none).
- L4PADRIO.cpp: BT_BTNTEST="addr,pressPoll,releasePoll" scripted screen-
button harness through the REAL click seam (EmitButton -> RIO queue ->
manager drain -> buttonGroup mapping) for headless verification.
- play_solo.bat: prefer the glass build when present AND set
BT_PLATFORM=glass so PadRIO exists and cockpit clicks work.
Side finding (the user's keymap "flip-flop"): CONTROLS.MAP (btinput, DEV/pod
profile) and bindings.txt (PadRIO, GLASS profile) are two parallel binding
engines; which one runs depends on the platform profile, so the felt keymap
changes with the boot flavor. Unification pending (user decision).
Awaiting live verification of the full hold-PROGRAM + tap-fire regroup flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
One window per pod display (Heat/Engineering/Comm/Weapons x2/radar +
Flight Controls), each carrying its surface with its RIO button bank
arranged pod-faithfully; CPU-expanded surfaces, buttons under the
imagery. Runtime gate BT_GLASS_PANELS (=0 = the legacy single panel).
Merged on top of today's landed fix pile (audio-crash, experience,
parallax); the L4PADRIO overlap with the gait-detent commit resolved
preserving BOTH (his window refactor + our at-rest band snap).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
# context/glass-cockpit.md
Break the desktop glass cockpit's secondary displays out of the single
combined pad panel + D3D gauge strip into ONE window per pod display, each
carrying that display's surface with its RIO button bank, arranged
pod-faithfully around the main view. New TU engine/MUNGA_L4/L4GLASSWIN.*
(BT_GLASS-only), selected by the -platform glass preset via the new runtime
gate BT_GLASS_PANELS (=0 falls back to the legacy single panel + dock).
- Surfaces are CPU-expanded from the shared gauge buffer
(SVGA16::ExpandPlaneToBGRA, no D3D) and StretchDIBits'd in -- the D3D
dev-composite path (dock / window / overlay) stands down while active.
- Buttons sit UNDER the imagery: big hidden click targets that reach into
the display, with only a small protruding edge showing as a lamp light.
Red MFD banks tile the top/bottom; radar rails run the sides + a bottom
row; a Flight Controls window hosts the no-display banks.
- Windows: Heat / Engineering / Comm / Left Weapons / Right Weapons / radar
+ Flight Controls; edge-to-edge (no in-client margin/title; OS caption
labels each).
- Fix blank surfaces: application/ghWnd are duplicate-defined and bind
non-deterministically under /FORCE, so the fresh L4GLASSWIN TU read NULL.
Reach the renderer/window via BTResolveGaugeRenderer/BTResolveMainWindow
defined in btl4main.cpp off the real btl4App/hWnd pointers. New gotcha:
reconstruction-gotchas.md S6 duplicate-GLOBAL corollary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Human re-test on the fresh build: zero-stop OK, but the lever could PARK inside
the walk/run hysteresis band (walkStrideLength@0x534 .. reverseSpeedMax@0x538)
where the gait SM has no stable state -- walk<->run hunt, EngineShiftFwd/Rev
retriggering ("mixed walk/run mode + repeated acceleration sample"). The
pod-build keyboard lever already snaps out of the band to the NEARER edge at
key-rest (mech4.cpp GAIT DETENT); the PadRIO slew channel lacked it.
Faithful port, not an invention: mech4.cpp publishes the band in lever units
every driven frame (gBTGaitDetentLo/Hi seam, same guards + the same +0.002
engage margin); L4PADRIO Poll() applies the identical nearer-edge snap to the
Throttle channel when the slew rests (no slew key held, no pad slew axis
deflected). Sweeping through the band while held stays continuous (the
authentic moving lever, one authentic shift).
Verified (DEV.EGG glass, graduated parks each ~0.10 of the sweep,
BT_GAIT_TRACE+BT_MPPR_TRACE): band [0.358026,0.50388) = demand 22.02-30.87;
in-band parks snap both directions (0.4137->lo, 0.465126->hi); no at-rest
sample in the band; exactly ONE walk->run clip (state 10) up and ONE run->walk
(state 14) down across the whole sweep; zero-stop unaffected; pod build
rebuilt + BT_AUTODRIVE smoke clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The crash (any typed key in a glass session; found via the backtick report):
the merge-reconciliation stand-down declared extern BTRIODevicePresent at
BLOCK scope inside the extern-C BTInputSuppressKey -- the declaration
inherited C linkage, _BTRIODevicePresent went UNRESOLVED, and /FORCE bound
the call to garbage (cdb: wild call into Sensor::DefaultData from
LBE4ControlsManager::Execute's suppression check). The tolerated-LNK2019
batch hid the new unresolved external -- the exact CLAUDE.md /FORCE trap.
Fix: the extern moved to file scope (C++ linkage); link verified clean of
_BTRIODevicePresent.
Backtick feature (per Cyd: backtick = 1st/3rd person): PadRIO edge-detects
VK_OEM_3 in its poll (focus-guarded, message-path-free) and the mech4 view
block consumes it beside the V action (which stands down with the binding
engine in glass mode). Verified live: two real presses -> [view] COCKPIT
eyepoint -> [view] external chase, game alive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User-reported: glass left/right inverted. Closed with live sign algebra:
the joystick-group wire push was traced end to end (new env-gated
BT_CTRLMAP_LOG push trace + record mode-mask in the install log) --
measured wire stickX=-1 -> turnDemand=-1, the SAME demand the
user-verified dev D-key-RIGHT produces (stickX=+1 -> turnDemand=-1 via the
bridge's negate-once, cb82d8c). The mapper interprets the authentic RIO
WIRE convention: stick right = NEGATIVE JoystickX (the vRIO/RIOJoy
calibration convention). PadRIO now publishes X negated (all sources --
keyboard deflect, pad LX, panel -- uniformly); Y stays screen-sign;
L4PADFLIP still flips both. Also: PadRIO honors BT_KEY_NOFOCUS=1 (the
btinput harness override) for automation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Cyd: the on-screen panel now mirrors vRIO (C:\VWE\vrio -- CockpitLayout.cs
+ PanelCanvas.cs, itself the RIOJoy profile-editor layout from the original
Win32 RIO mockup): five 4x2 MFD clusters (addresses descending), four 1x8
board columns (Throttle/Secondary/Screen/Joystick), the two 4x4 hex keypads
(0x50/0x60 -- cells emit real keypad KeyEvents: internal=pilot unit, external=
operator unit), physical names (Panic/Main/Hat*/Pinky...), vRIO colors: red
lamp cells + yellow Secondary/Screen + neutral-blue keypads, flash half-
periods 500/250/125ms, right-click latch (gold outline). 104 controls.
PlasmaWindow: the gauge renderer writes the 128x32 buffer TOP-DOWN -- the
bottom-up flip rendered the marquee upside down (user-reported); copy straight.
Button-trap guard (the e2c21c4 pattern): the authentic base
ConfigureMappableMessageHandler FAIL trap is abort() under DEBUGOFF -- any
aux/zoom button without its L4 override reconstructed KILLED the game on
press. Default now: loud [FAIL] log + ignore; BT_BUTTON_TRAP=1 restores the
hard trap. Verified live: synthetic click on a Secondary cell -> 2 [FAIL]
lines (press+release through panel->PadRIO->ProcessRIOEvent->streamed
mapping), game survives and keeps ticking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NEW gated TUs: L4PADPANEL (GDI top-level window, all-W APIs: the pod button
banks -- upper/lower aux, 12 secondary, specials/hat/handle, 63 buttons --
clickable via PadRIO::SetScreenButton with lamp-lit faces from GetLampState,
10 Hz repaint; created by the PadRIO ctor on BT_PAD_PANEL=1) and L4PLASMAWIN
(PlasmaWindow : Video8BitBuffered -- the gauge renderer draws the 128x32
plasma into its pixelBuffer through the SAME code path as the serial device;
Update() blits orange-on-black at L4PLASMASCALE, default x4). Gated seams:
L4GREND.cpp L4PLASMA=SCREEN branch; btl4main.cpp -platform glass preset
(PAD,KEYBOARD + BT_DEV_GAUGES + SCREEN plasma + panel; env always overrides;
non-glass builds log+fall back to DEV); run.cmd glass token. MFD surfaces
need NO new code: the existing dock-bottom / BT_DEV_GAUGES_WINDOW=1 /
BT_DEV_GAUGES_DOCK=1 modes are the display story.
Verified live: -platform glass boots GLASS profile, panel + plasma windows
up, pad detected, dev gauges awake, mission loop clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
L4RIO.h splits the abstract cockpit-control surface (RIOBase: enums, the five
analog Scalars, GetNextEvent/SetLamp, no-op serial ops, NEW IsOperational) out
of the serial RIO (RIO : PCSerialPacket, RIOBase -- byte-for-byte behavior kept,
ctor assigns as before); LBE4ControlsManager holds a RIOBase* and gains the
gated L4CONTROLS=PAD factory arm (BT_GLASS; OFF build logs+ignores the token).
NEW gated TUs: L4PADRIO (XInput+keyboard synthesize the surface; 3s hot-plug
re-probe; focus-guarded keys; per-poll AnalogEvent heartbeat; lampState[] +
static SetScreenButton/GetLampState for the panel) and L4PADBINDINGS
(content\bindings.txt profile, self-documenting default written on first run;
deflect/slew/set axis model; addresses validated against ButtonCount).
Verified live (glass build, L4CONTROLS=PAD): bindings written+parsed 44/10/5,
XInput pad detected, 121 streamed mappings install via stock PrimaryRIO path,
2157 frames clean. Pod build (gates OFF) compiles the split with zero
behavioral delta.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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