Re: [SDL] Is there any support for force feedback devices?

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Sam Lantinga <sl...@de...> on Tue, Jul 31, 2001:

> > Looking through Joystick API I fail to notice any support for force
> > feedback. I take that current API doesn't have any support. Now that 1.3 is
> > coming is there going to be API support in it?
> 
> As far as I know force feedback is only available using the DirectInput API.
> I'm hesitant to add something that only works on one platform.
> 

IIRC, James Simmons and/or Vojtech Pavlik were working on an API for force
feedback for ruby, codename for the linuxconsole project's 2.5 input tree
(BTW some drivers do work in 2.4.x).  You can find the ruby source at
http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole-dev.

I don't know if they ever completed their work - hence the crosspost :).

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M. R.