From the WWHD vs. Dolphin thread:
Actually, you could. As long as you have the proper know-how about electronics, you can probably solder things together where the input from the joystick is passed through the keyboard. The other way around would be possible as well (passing the keyboard's input into the joystick). Hardware isn't designed to work like that normally, but there's nothing to stop hardware hackers. This is elaborated slighty more below.
As I mentioned above, you can specifiy which is input and which is the output if you want to avoid ambiguity. Generally speaking from what I've seen, most people tend to say the input first and output last as a matter of convention. Depending on who you're talking to, it's obvious enough in context to realize which is acting as input and which is going to be the output. If you wanted to be more accurate to eliminate ambiguity, you could say something like the following: "I'm assigning Button A on my joystick to act as Key B" This specifies that one is assuming the functionality of another, but people often find it shorter to say "I'm assigning Button A to Key B".
Well, one doesn't have to be a physical input method and the other strictly a function. They could both be physical input methods. Consider that you can physically assign Button A to Button B by having Button A's wiring pass its signal over to Button B's wiring (or just outright replace Button B with Button A, although Button B would no longer really exist). Like I said, I have not seen this used very often in discussions, but in DIY hardware making/modding (think Audrino's and breadboards and whatnot) it's probably more common.
In a linguistically perfect world, the preposition ("at Toshi station") would always modify the nearest antecendent ("power converter"), rather than the gerund phrase ("picking up a power converter"), but since English allows for both grammatically, this is where confusion can arrive from. You get this quite a lot in English, however, like "I am playing my Wii on the couch." Without context, you can't tell if I'm on the couch or if my Wii is (hey, it might be both).
Gabbyjay Wrote:But you could not map the physical button to the physical key, could you?
Actually, you could. As long as you have the proper know-how about electronics, you can probably solder things together where the input from the joystick is passed through the keyboard. The other way around would be possible as well (passing the keyboard's input into the joystick). Hardware isn't designed to work like that normally, but there's nothing to stop hardware hackers. This is elaborated slighty more below.
Gabbyjay Wrote:Or, in our example, if you want to have your gamepad "l-trigger"-button perform the action of the turbo-mode, which usually the tab-button does. Then how do you say this when you don't want to express that the tab-key does now what usually the l-trigger does?
As I mentioned above, you can specifiy which is input and which is the output if you want to avoid ambiguity. Generally speaking from what I've seen, most people tend to say the input first and output last as a matter of convention. Depending on who you're talking to, it's obvious enough in context to realize which is acting as input and which is going to be the output. If you wanted to be more accurate to eliminate ambiguity, you could say something like the following: "I'm assigning Button A on my joystick to act as Key B" This specifies that one is assuming the functionality of another, but people often find it shorter to say "I'm assigning Button A to Key B".
Gabbyjay Wrote:Thinking about it: You got physical buttons, you got physical keys, and you got functions.
So in the statement, "i assign A to B", one has to be physical and one has to be a function, otherwise it does not appear to make sense to me.
Well, one doesn't have to be a physical input method and the other strictly a function. They could both be physical input methods. Consider that you can physically assign Button A to Button B by having Button A's wiring pass its signal over to Button B's wiring (or just outright replace Button B with Button A, although Button B would no longer really exist). Like I said, I have not seen this used very often in discussions, but in DIY hardware making/modding (think Audrino's and breadboards and whatnot) it's probably more common.
Gabbyjay Wrote:At least now we know that "picking up a power converter at Toshi station" can have a very different meaning:
In a linguistically perfect world, the preposition ("at Toshi station") would always modify the nearest antecendent ("power converter"), rather than the gerund phrase ("picking up a power converter"), but since English allows for both grammatically, this is where confusion can arrive from. You get this quite a lot in English, however, like "I am playing my Wii on the couch." Without context, you can't tell if I'm on the couch or if my Wii is (hey, it might be both).