JoystickGremlin
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Device cheatsheet images
With the addition of a library that allows generating arbitrary PDF files I will be able to render text in arbitrary locations on an image, which will allow me to create cheat sheets that place the text on drawings of devices.
As there are quite a few devices out there and many different drawings for such cheat sheets I'd be more then happy for people to link such images in here as a sort of repository for me to use when I get around to implementing that feature.
Thank you for your hard work WhiteMagic, your software is really improved each update.
Below the PDF manual of the VPC MongoosT-50 Grip. https://virpil.com/en/support/downloads?download=16:vpc-mongoost-50-grip-user-manual-en Page 6 Right Grip, Page 7 Left Grip
Below the Thrustmaster Warthog Joystick. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7aNnb-u_eZ1RkxsX28wNEFRUUk/edit?pli=1
Below the Thrustmaster Warthog Throttle. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7aNnb-u_eZ1ZHJlY2dlWUl4TkE/edit?pli=1
Thrustmaster T-16000M
Put a "Left" or "Right" caption at the bottom right and you can cover both configurations for the stick. Just a disclaimer but this template is not my work but something I have found and use from the internet.
I had started on something like this for my own use when I came across this issue. Currently I piggy-backing off generate_cheatsheet() and call my own simple reference card builder function.
I will help implement a generic solution if you are accepting contributions.
Absolutely, I'm more then happy to add contributions from others into Gremlin. The current generator is really just a bare bones implementation that gets some information out but obviously has tons of directions into which it could be improved.
I made like this.
Joystick image I took here (don't know about the rights): https://wiki.tosbase.com/wiki/Controls#Controller_Mode
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/438688364359581710/518876091373453315/MT-50_GripLH_ButtonMapR.png
Excellent idea. Can the user import their own layouts in the software or will they have to choose from a predefined list ?
There hasn't been any real work on this. However, someone else has written a program that implements this idea and his software is able to read Gremlin profiles and generate diagrams like this issue here is talking about. https://github.com/Rexeh/joystick-diagrams
FYI for any aspiring devs... https://github.com/Rexeh/joystick-diagrams is closing down now.
It might be worth pulling in a snapshot and bundling it with Gremlin. Obviously don't want the extra work on WhiteMagic right now who's in the middle of the UI refactor.
