BUTTONS (shipped). Win32 hands mouse buttons out as virtual keys, and the
binding path already stores VKs and polls GetAsyncKeyState -- so this needed no
verb, no parser change and no new machinery, just names:
key MOUSE4 button 0x40 # side buttons
key MOUSE5 button 0x46
key MOUSEMIDDLE button 0x41
MOUSELEFT/MOUSERIGHT are named too, with a warning in the file header and the
docs: they are how the player presses cockpit buttons (left = press, right =
latch), and the poll is focus-guarded but not click-aware, so binding either
ALSO fires on every panel click. The side and middle buttons are the free
ones. Axes work as well (`key MOUSE4 axis Throttle slew + 0.7`).
One guard: the RGB lamp mirror skips mouse VKs when building its map -- a
keyboard lamp array has no mouse buttons to paint (BTPadBindingIsMouseKey).
Verified live: a bindings.txt carrying two mouse rows loads 76 keys (74 + 2),
and a real injected XBUTTON1 press produced `[emitter] FIRED #1`. Clean A/B --
the earlier run whose SendInput failed the struct-size check logged no fire at
all. Shipped commented-out examples in the default profile so the capability
is discoverable.
LOOK (scoped only). docs/MOUSELOOK_PLAN.md. Mouse MOVEMENT is a real feature,
not a table entry, and the hard part is not reading the device:
- The cursor is already spoken for. The glass cockpit's premise is that all
72 buttons are mouse targets; mouse-look wants a captured, hidden, recentred
cursor. Both cannot be true, so this is a MODE question first -- four
models compared, recommending hold-to-look (costs nothing when unbound,
cannot strand a player, behaves the same in surround and exploded layouts).
- The channels are POSITIONAL (JoystickX/Y are -1..1 deflections the mapper
reads per control mode); a mouse gives deltas. Accumulate-into-a-virtual-
stick reuses every existing rule; a rate model would need new mapper
semantics.
- Control mode changes what it MEANS: BASIC steers with the stick, MID/ADV
twist the torso -- so mouse-look steers in one and aims in the other.
Proposed grammar (new row type, so old builds skip it with a warning),
where the code goes, ~250 lines, and a verification plan whose load-bearing
item is "panel clicks still work when a mouselook binding exists but is not
engaged". Also flagged: the pod had NO mouse, so nothing here is
reconstruction -- every choice is design, judged on feel, and it must stay out
of the pod build's path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 5
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