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2. Re: Opening Devices & Joystick Input

• Posted by DanM Feb 18, 2009
• 957 views
• Last edited Feb 19, 2009

A look in the archives under "joystick" yields:

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/winjoy.zip

I know I've used a USB joystick in an app, but I don't think it was the above lib that I used; it's possible that there might be a demo from Win32Lib that also lets you use USB joystick, I'm not sure. But give the above a try & see if it lets you do what you want. If not, let us know & I'll look for what I did, don't know where it is right now though.

It is, btw, always a good bet to look first in the archives

Dan

4. Re: Opening Devices & Joystick Input

• Posted by DanM Feb 19, 2009
• 935 views

Turns out the aforementioned lib (or earlier version?) IS what I used, you can get buttons off the joystick too. May have to play with values and methods, tho. One thing I did mention in my app is that the query for available joysticks on system didn't work right on XP system, as follows (with fix):

-- JOYSTICK INPUT STUFF: 
 
include joy.ew 
 
  object void 
 
if joy_init()=0 then 
	puts(1,"No joystick(s) attached!") 
	abort(0) 
end if 
 
-- NOTE: BOTH ABOVE AND THIS DO *NOT* WORK ON XP, SHOWS 1 CONNECTED WHEN NONE IS! 
puts(1, "number of joysticks attached: " & sprint(joy_init()) & "\n") 
 
-- these DO work: 
sequence joy_info,s 
integer button_mask 
 
joy_info = {} 
 
	s = joy_get_state(1) 
 
--DM  THIS MAKES QUIT IF NO JOYSTICK FOUND ON XP SYSTEM. 
      if equal(s, {}) then 
         puts(1, "no joystick connected.\n") 
         puts(1, "press any key to exit; then attach a joystick to a USB port") 
         void= wait_key() 
         abort(0) 
      end if 

I'm pretty sure that the demo with the lib does show more about how to use it.

Dan

6. Re: Opening Devices & Joystick Input

• Posted by bernie Feb 19, 2009
• 906 views

In order to control a device on the windows operating system;
a device driver for that device must be installed on windows.

I do not think there is a device driver written for windows using
an xbox360 controler.

Unless you write your own or find one written by someone else
your out of luck.

If the device was a serial or parallel device it would be much simpler.

8. Re: Opening Devices & Joystick Input

• Posted by DanM Feb 19, 2009
• 1000 views
• Last edited Feb 20, 2009

And then there's this too:

http://www.redcl0ud.com/xbcd.html

and:

http://xbcd360guide.50webs.com/

hope that helps, that's all I can do relative to gaming.

Dan