Feature request "autohide" for gamepad users

[cosmoruski]

Gamepad users (I take the 360 pad as an examble, since it is quite widespread) may experienced this:
When you map the IR to the right thumbstick, you get the IR the middle of the screen

see this thread for example: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-mario-galaxy-2-problem--25272

There are some workarounds, like the one described by [color=#C68E17][b]Axxer[/color] [/b]in the thread:
to map the hide funktion as follows:
"NOT <right joystick up> AND NOT <right joystick left> AND
NOT <right joystick right> AND NOT <right joystick down>.
That way, unless you specifically move the cursor, it won't be visible
in screen"

This works fine on the first sight, but when you move the stick from left to right, then the IR diappears for a moment - since in the transition from left to right there is state where it is not left and not right (hope you geht the logic here)

My solution to this was to map hide to "NOT RB" on the pad - this way you have to press rb to "activate" the IR, do some pointing stuff, and then let go of RB, which lets the IR diappear again.
But this wastes one button, and is kind of awkward to use.

Would it be possible to introduce a feature to dolphin like "hide IR after x seconds of inactivity" ?
This would realy help out the gamepad users

Can someone pass this request to the developers - or can tell me the official way to do this?

PS: sorry for my englisch

[MayImilae]

You can use a button on the gamepad to toggle IR on and off, or set it up so holding a button turns the IR on, and releasing it turns the IR off.

[cosmoruski]

(11-20-2013, 09:03 AM)MaJoR Wrote: You can use a button on the gamepad to toggle IR on and off, or set it up so holding a button turns the IR on, and releasing it turns the IR off.

As mentioned above I actually did assign a button to enable while holding it - but found it a waste of a button and somehow unnaccecery complicated to use

But the other method sounds interesting: how to toggle it on/off?

[MayImilae]

Hmm, actually I appear to be wrong about that. Sorry.

Ok, here's what you do. Go here. https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/list and make an issue. Request a "toggle" function. That should give you what you need and be a lot easier for the developers than a "hide IR after X period" feature. I can't promise it will be responded to quickly though; Jasper left so there is only Billiard to work on this kind of thing, and he's been busy. But at least when it's on googlecode they'll be aware of it.

[cosmoruski]

Okay, here is the Issue:
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6827&thanks=6827&ts=1384952020