Ability to compile from source with no keyboard support?

[Shadowblitz16]

I installed this on retropie but I don't have a keyboard on that system, and while I can plug one in I don't want someone to accidentally change it back to keyboard or bind to invalid inputs once I unplug my keyboard.

Can we get the ability to compile this with no keyboard and only gamepad support?
When this is done it should start the game with default gamepad input bound to controller 1.

[mmatyas]

Hm, I don't think I've seen programs that completely disable keyboard support. Plenty can go wrong with gamepads too, and it never hurts to have a fallback option. If you don't want people to physically plug things into the board, you can block the ports: there are dummy USB plugs for this. If you don't want people misconfigure your game, I'd look into whether it's possible to block keyboard input from the system itself for a launched program.

[Shadowblitz16]

@mmatyas Can the following be done?

• Automatically switching to a plugged in device if the current one is unavailable.
• Not allowing us to switch to input that is not plugged in.

[mmatyas]

As far as I know, keyboards don't have a plugged in/plugged out event (only gamepads do), so I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here is technically possible (but feel free to prove me wrong). The system itself will always have a keyboard. As for gamepads, there's no switching or any proper device management in the game at the moment, which could be indeed improved.

[Shadowblitz16]

Then being able to compile without keyboard support and auto switching controller devices in the menu when a button or axis is pressed would fix my issues.

Also maybe you could require all menu inputs to be bound so you don't get a case where someone accidentally unbinds all the menu inputs.