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GP-Wiz49 Software finally ready (link & screenshot)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: millercentral on April 20, 2005, 02:05:33 pm ---Following up on the Linux support question, Randy can you provide the lowlevel API (IOCTL commands I'm assuming) documentation to how the app works so that FE authors wanting a built in solution, or other platform users can implement this as well?
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James,
If you know anyone interested in doing this, they should contact me directly and outline their plans. I'll help in any way I can.
RandyT
dema:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on April 20, 2005, 02:11:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 20, 2005, 01:49:56 pm ---so it's basically adding a function for the hard core users as opposed to the real target for this product
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Not true, he added the 16way which was based of one person's opinion.
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I don't think the customizeable layout a bad request, I just think the product needs some time to mature first. That may be a great addition to future generations of the product, but he should be able to put out the product now and reap the rewards of such a novel idea for the community. If he were to consider every idea for the product before he even has time to sell it an make his costs back and continue to operate his company, he'd be working on a never-ending product, and would have a number of unhappy customers who were trading product back for newer features.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: dema on April 20, 2005, 02:18:03 pm ---I don't think the customizeable layout a bad request, I just think the product needs some time to mature first. That may be a great addition to future generations of the product, but he should be able to put out the product now and reap the rewards of such a novel idea for the community. If he were to consider every idea for the product before he even has time to sell it an make his costs back and continue to operate his company, he'd be working on a never-ending product, and would have a number of unhappy customers who were trading product back for newer features.
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Exactly. The whole reasom I am waiting for the right time to buy one.
I know he has to limit features per version. Every product is that way. You can only do so much in time.
Plus products never end. People find new uses for stuff all the time :)
Anyway, end of discussion. Obvuiously it isn't going to happen no matter how hard anyone tries. Though I will bring it up when I get one. I have ideas for use of such a feature...
Actually, new but related idea. *IF* one could customize mapping, would it be possible to map a keycode to a particular 49way grid through this interface? If this ever happens I have a frontend idea....
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 20, 2005, 01:09:08 pm ---Unless you use the product, you can't possibly know what is needed or even beneficial. So far, I haven't received one complaint from users, in fact all of them are about as tickled as can be with the performance of the unit.
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Okay, let me chime in on a few things here. I also said that I thought it would be good to add a couple of "user-defined" modes, at least as an expansion option to the product. I thought this would require an additional software package to make, define, and save the modes. Whether he adds it or not is RandyT's call. I agree that it probably is nothing I would use (other than just to mess with b/c I could), if I owned the product.
But here's an example of one case where owning the product makes a difference. Randy asked me if I had tried the software in command-line mode since that was something I requested in the 15-page thread. I hadn't b/c I didn't think it would work or I would see anything without a GP-Wiz49 connected. Then I thought "He asked if I have tried it, so it must do something. Maybe it splashes up that big screen with all the modes shown and the chosen one highlighted?" I could see some people thinking that was cool and others hating it. I thought I would need to recommend a "Stealth" flag so you don't see that.
Then I tried it. A little icon pops up to tell you what mode the stick is in. I kinda like it and if I had time would add it even without the GP-Wiz49, b/c it's a handy reference if a game is unfamiliar.
But I would never have known if I didn't test it out myself.
--- Quote from: SirPoonga ---I guess I don't understand how some people can be that way, lock out ideas completely and never look at them again. It's how you learn by trying out new things.
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You might keep in mind that when the product was released, RandyT was unable to program it through the USB port. This was added entirely as a result of user requests. So it's not that he's ignoring his customers, just choosing which requests to honor.
--- Quote from: DEMA ---If he were to consider every idea for the product before he even has time to sell it an make his costs back and continue to operate his company, he'd be working on a never-ending product. . .
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That would be almost like building an arcade cabinet, then . . . oh, wait . . .
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on April 20, 2005, 02:51:14 pm ---You might keep in mind that when the product was released, RandyT was unable to program it through the USB port.
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