Crate puppetmaster

Puppetmaster

Easy-to-use input handling for writing games.

This crate exposes different kinds of input handlers. Pick which one to use based on how your game engine provides you with input data.

• EventInputHandler for when your game engine uses events
• PollingInputHandler for when your game engine provides a set of the currently pressed keys
• QueryInputHandler for when your game engine provides a function to call to query the state of a key.

Inputs vs Controls

This crate makes a distinction between inputs and controls. Inputs are the raw keycodes your game engine feeds to you; controls are what your game does about it.

So, something like Key::W would be an input, predefined by your game engine, and you could map it to a Control::Up you defined in your game’s code.

Multiple inputs can map to the same control, but not vice versa. So, both the W key and the up arrow could map to Control::Up, but you couldn’t have the shift key map to both Crouch and Sprint.

Structs

EventInputHandler

Input handler for an event-based game engine.

PollingInputHandler

Input handler for an polling-based game engine.

QueryInputHandler

Input handler for an query-based game engine.