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Joystick Bean

Posted by Andrew Semprebon on 22 Sep 1998, 1:28 PM

> Nice use of the factory pattern to abstract construction. I like it.
> What I'd do in this case, Andrew, is create a JoyBean class
> that accesses that JoystickFactory class and asks it for its
> list of JoyStick objects. If there aren't any, the JoyBean
> disables itself; if there is only one JoyStick, it uses it, and if there
> are more than one, it uses the "default" JoyStick (something
> statically defined in the JoyStickFactory class itself), but provides
> a Customizer that allows you to override which one is being used.

Great minds think alike. That's basically the solution I came
up with. Since most PCs only have one joystick, I made the default no-arg constructor use it. I hadn't thought of a customizer to let you pick the joystick you want - right now, if you want something other than the default, you have to use a constructor that has a parameter that identifies the desired joystick.

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