Re: hello...and MS-FF2...

[Rodrigo D. <cu...@uo...>]

Johann Deneux wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Rodrigo Damazio wrote:
>
>>Johann Deneux wrote:
>>
>>>I checked it. It's not the iforce, protocol, what would have been
>>>surprising anyway. The bit used for the deadman sensor just happend to=
 be
>>>the same bit as I-Force uses, but that was just luck.
>>>
>>        I supposed it is the standard PID protocol then?? I realized it=
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>>
>
>Probably.
>
        What else do we need to check to see if it is?? (I have a lot of=20
free time these days, I can do it)

>>should be something other than I-Force, because I tried adding the=20
>>joystick to iforce-main.c and iforce-usb.c and it just didn't work. The=
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>>I suppose we must implement a non-I-force PID driver, am I correct?? If=
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>>so I suggest we use the same base API and ioctls that are being used fo=
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>>I-Force, just sending different data to the device...perhaps (to be=20
>>better organized), take the common part of the current I-force code and=
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>>put it as generic force feedback code, then add I-force and standard PI=
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>>as sub-options...
>>
>
>Vojtech and I designed the ff API so that it's not I-Force specific. We
>may need to add/change some parts of the API, but what the ff_effect
>struct is supposed to be generic enough to be used with other kinds of
>devices. Have a look at input.h. Nothing in it should be I-Force specifi=
c.
>Now, it's true there are parts that could be re-used or adapted from
>iforce.c (the parameter blocks allocation and handling, for example).
>
        Yes, I had realized that - everything is quite generic...
        I'll try to create a ff_pid.c file based on iforce*.c, and make=20
it send the data according to the PID specs and the dumps I have...or=20
have any of you already started that?
        Btw, how do custom effects work??

Rodrigo  =20

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