A closer to the metal library for Xbox controller to keyboard and mouse input simulation on Windows

Current Features

• Mapping of controller input to keyboard and mouse input on Windows.
• GUI for changing key bindings
• List of key binding presets to choose from
• Editable list of key bindings
• Adjustable mouse sensitivity
• Toggleable key repeat behavior

Roadmap

• Lower CPU usage
• Portable input simulation thread priorities
• Dep. injected timestamp retrieval, system calls for high res. clock are heavy
• Make use of polar coordinates instead of scaling cartesian coordinates (PolarCode repo)

Possible Ideas

• Integrate my PolarCode repo code
• Portable everything
• Run as a system service instead of on-demand app
• Load/Save config files and share them

XMapLibSharp is a C# .NET GUI project using the C++ project code through a DLL. With this approach, the project has access to the entire .NET framework for GUI work while keeping the native performance and power of the C++ XMapLib project code.

The project utilizes

• .NET multi-threading
• events
• programmatic UI element creation
• a producer/consumer design pattern.
• managed/native interop via custom C++ DLL

A high level code diagram of the XMapLib project code (native C++)

The project utilizes

• C++ templates
• Template SFINAE
• constexpr
• unit testing with Microsoft CppUnitTestingFramework
• multi-threading, many threads running concurrently and interacting
• concurrency synchronization objects, like mutexes and RAII scoped locks
• C++ standard atomics
• lambdas, and passing lambdas as arguments
• usage of several Windows API functions including the XInput lib
• operator overloads
• input simulation
• C++ pointer wrappers like unique_ptr
• if-constexpr to do compile-time decisions instead of run-time
• STL containers and algorithms
• it is a real time system (or very close)
• lots and lots of object oriented programming

The main classes for use in the native C++ XMapLib project are :

• MouseMapper
• KeyboardMapper
• MousePlayerInfo
• KeyboardPlayerInfo
• To set the mapping details KeyboardKeyMap encapsulates the information comprising a controller key to keyboard/mouse key mapping.

Also, please see the Example

The DLL API exposed from XMapLibDLL is described totally in apifuncs.h in the DLL project.