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Shall I Implement Joystick support on Windows platform

Posted Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 - 11:18 by BlueMonkMN in

Because I'm trying to eliminate all traces of DirectX from SGDK2, I'll be manually implementing joystick support using winmm.dll. I've copied a couple lines from Tao because I didn't know the correct MarshalAs attributes to apply to some strings in the JOYCAPS structure, and a Google search for JOYCAPS returned a page of Tao source code. (Is that kosher?)

Might you be interested in the Joystick class when it's done, or will you be basing Joystick support on something else?

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Re: Shall I Implement Joystick support on Windows platform

Posted Monday, 9 February, 2009 - 13:19 by the Fiddler

I've attached the code I'm working on. It's not 100% ready (works with polling but no events of any kind), but it should be easy to flesh out. It builds on your code for windows.

The idea is quite simple:

You instantiate an IJoystickDriver that enumerates all connected joystick devices. You can then access available joysticks like this:

driver.Poll();   // Call once per frame to update state.
foreach (Joystick js in driver.Joysticks)
{
    foreach (float axis in js.Axes)
        [...]
    foreach (bool button in js.Buttons)
        [...]
}

You have to poll the driver, because the Joystick class is dumb and doesn't know how to update itself (by design).

Edit: really attached this time.

Edit 2: fixed implementation windows, please download the new file!

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