# Objective
Gamepad / directional navigation needs an example, for both teaching and
testing purposes.
## Solution
- Add a simple grid-based example.
- Fix an intermittent panic caused by a race condition with bevy_a11y
- Clean up small issues noticed in bevy_input_focus
## To do: this PR
- [x] figure out why "enter" isn't doing anything
- [x] change button color on interaction rather than printing
- [x] add on-screen directions
- [x] move to an asymmetric grid to catch bugs
- [x] ~~fix colors not resetting on button press~~ lol this is mostly
just a problem with hacking `Interaction` for this
- [x] swap to using observers + bubbling, rather than `Interaction`
## To do: future work
- when I increase the button size, such that there is no line break, the
text on the buttons is no longer centered :( EDIT: this is
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/16783
- add gamepad stick navigation
- add tools to find the nearest populated quadrant to make diagonal
inputs work
- add a `add_edges` method to `DirectionalNavigationMap`
- add a `add_grid` method to `DirectionalNavigationMap`
- make the example's layout more complex and realistic
- add tools to automatically generate this list
- add button shake on failed navigation rather than printing an error
- make Pressed events easier to mock: default fields, PointerId::Focus
## Testing
`cargo run --example directional_navigation`
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Co-authored-by: Rob Parrett <robparrett@gmail.com>
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