A suggestion or two.

[McKack]

I already suggest that on a post...

I think you meant also, not already

uwontprevail suggested it first ;)

[cldfusion]

These are my suggestions for a compact editor.
Okay, so controller buttons are images/buttons.
On the on hover mouse event,(A depress of ps3 controller would be cool here too)
a tooltip control is displayed, showing all of the events attached to that button. While on hover is activated, the detection retrieves events to add to the list.
If a detected event is already in the button's list, it is removed.
A blue circle is shown, when a button has assigned event(s).
On hover over joysticks could switch a tab group at the bottom of the screen for joystick parameters.


*A circle could be drawn like Mckack's tutorial, to give a visual representation of Dz ,on hover, even wads movement stepping with red circles would look really good.
*Could also have a 'show all'button in the corner to show all tool tips.

While on the subject of interface there's one thing that's been bugging me:

[Matlo]

Ok thanks for all the suggestions.

Don't expect too much for the first release:

• auto-detection: I will reuse the same code as sixemuconf (the small black window!).
• a button or a left stick direction = 1 control (no list).
• no wasd stepping.

I found the original png for the image that was suggested:



The good point is that it's in the public domain: link.

[Matlo]

Layout preview:



I still need to find something to display long button/key names. Maybe a tooltip...

[McKack]

I do vector work and can provide you with svg or whatever format you'd like. I could do a revision of that image and add/remove anything if you need it too.

[Matlo]

The svg is also available: link.

But I'm using the png version, the gui editor I'm using (codeblocks+wxWidgets+wxSmith) works fine with that format.

[McKack]

As long as you want the dimensions fixed, yeah. But either way, I'll just hand you a PNG then if you need something changed.

[Matlo]

I successfully added tooltips but I had to change the way I was displaying the background image, which is not a bad thing as it was very hackish and probably not portable to windows.



I think a "grayed" controller (as in my previous screenshot) is better. McKack, could you please make something like that?

[uwontprevail]

Ok let's go back to the initial subject: a simplified configuration tool for fps games.
I'm working on it right now
It will look like this:

fpsconfig.png

Any suggestion?
Is there anyone wanting to design the background image?

Looks amazing.

[uwontprevail]

I successfully added tooltips but I had to change the way I was displaying the background image, which is not a bad thing as it was very hackish and probably not portable to windows.

fpsconfig3.png

I think a "grayed" controller (as in my previous screenshot) is better. McKack, could you please make something like that?

omg, that is perfect.

Add the option to add multiple keys to each button and this is golden.