Writing the GController Interface shell

 11/30/2018

Month 2, Week 2

Author: Devin Wright

  This last week was mostly spent writing the interface shell, I also spent some time looking into how to simulate a Xbox controller on Windows for the use with the unit test in the future. The time spent on the shell was to transfer the interface from the API document while making any necessary changes, writing out the Doxygen comments, creating the .cpp file, and defining the input codes for use with the interface. For the unit test it appears we will have to use a driver in order to simulate a virtual controller that can be detected by Xinput. There are a few options to do this currently I plan to look into using something like ViGEm or Vbox as possible options.

  With the shell of the interface written out I can now begin writing the simple form of unit tests that won't require the virtual controller. The virtual controller won't be worried about until around the fourth mouth after everything else has been fleshed out. After, creating unit tests for both the regular function calls and the events it will then be time to begin implementing the functions of the interface so that they can pass the unit tests.