As of MacOS Catalina (10.15.X) there is no longer a reason to work with this project, and as for color customization, that can be used through the newer steam controller drivers. This repository is now archived. Thanks for any interest it might've generated. Very early days here! Here be dragons! Pre-alpha experiments
To run this little experiment, first connect a Sony DualShock4 controller via either USB or Bluetooth, then open this folder with node-webkit 0.8.6-osx-ia32. The trackpad on the controller should now control your mouse, including tap to click and press in button clicking, two finger vertical scrolling, and dragging by pressing in the trackpad button.
Todo before first beta release:
- Improve GUI to be pretty and black themed
- Checkbox for inverted scrolling
- Make new gamepad graphic, prerendered images, check redrawing is fast
- Try to find a way to power down extra sensors over bluetooth when idle
- Get LED control working over bluetooth, or indicate controller state with on screen popup
Ideas/Todo:
- Squash memory leaks! (progress being made!!)
- Right click via two finger tap
- Right click via the options button?
- Acceleration for mouse, scrolling from system settings? or local settings?
- Visualize touches on trackpad in UI because it's cool
- Figure out why horizontal scrolling doesn't work in NextEvent <3 (COMPLETED) Retrieve and respect inverted scrolling system setting <3 (COMPLETED) Key repeat for arrow buttons (menu navigation) from system settings
- Momentum in scrolling
- Experiment with mouse cursor momentum
- Clamp mouse to screen width and height
- Option to disable tap to click (or use system setting?) <3 (COMPLETED) Keyboard mapping of more buttons (enter and escape added, x and o)
- Custom keyboard mapping?
- Gamepad text entry the same way Steam Big Picture implements it
- Analog Stick scrolling option
- Update mechanism?
- Trackpad zoom gesture (screen zoom?)
Looking for collaborators and contributors, especially ideas around trackpad multitouch api design, gesture classifiers and general data massaging to improve mapping of finger movements to mouse stuff. I'd also like to talk to any interested user interface designers on designing app interface.
=== Building Info === Native extensions (currently ffi, ref, in NodObjC, and node-hid under ds4) require rebuilding using nw-gyp (available in npm) to be compatible with node-webkit 0.8.6. To do this for node-hid for example:
cd node_modules/ds4/node_modules/node-hid nw-gyp rebuild --target=0.8.6
The binary components will then be rebuilt. This seems to require Xcode be installed to build on Mac, not just apple's terminal build tools.