Re: [Flightgear-devel] Saitek radio and multifunction panels

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

On 9 Jul 2013, at 20:54, Durk Talsma <dur...@gm...> wrote:

> Also just a quick note from me. At the last FSWeekend, I got a sample radio panel from the Saitek Guys. IIRC, James Turner is/has been working on providing some of the groundwork and we agreed that while he was doing that, I'd put my efforts on getting the device working on hold. It's been a while ago since we last chatted about this, so I'm not really sure what the current status is. 

I've done some work on it, and will return to it once 2.12 is shipped.

(My interest is in supporting the GoFlight hardware, which I've purchased several modules of, but it's all USB-HID in the end)

The issue is basically about finishing Torsten Dreyer's event-input code, but also about potentially making that use hidapi (which would greatly simplify the code on the FG side), /if/ I can get the hidapi author to accept a patch adding HID descriptor parsing to the library as an extra. 

I've also separately had my GoFlight hardware working on Mac using the existing Mac event-input code, but encountered some issues, to do with the rate we pull data out of IOKit; essentially it's too easy to miss events which for certain inputs on the GoFlight panels (rotary encoders) causes odd behaviours.

So yes, lots of these pieces exist, it needs some integration work and further development after 2.12. Torsten's current code is also incompatible with the current joystick config XML, which I think probably needs to be addressed in an adapter layer.

Regards,
James