[Plib-devel] re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick documentation problem

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, da...@me... (David Megginson) wrote:
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 07:10:48 -0400
> To: fli...@fl...
> From: da...@me... (David Megginson)
> CC: PLIB Development List <pli...@li...>
> Reply-To: pli...@li...
> Subject: [Plib-devel] re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick documentation
> problem
>
> Michael Basler writes:
>
>  > 2. I'm using a German Windows version. I run into the same problem as
>  > F. Bouvier had once before: My joystick is named
>  > "Microsoft-PC-Joysticktreiber". I tried changing the name in
>  > pro-yoke-usb.xml which did not help, though. Problem is, it reports
>  > found "Microsoft-PC-Joysticktreiber" twice with exactly the same name
>  > during startup (I think as a yoke and as pedals), so I don't know how
>  > to substituite the two entries in pro-yoke-usb-xml.
>
> Here is the problem -- the plib joystick support from Windows seems to
> be reporting the name supplied by the driver rather than the raw name
> supplied by the USB device itself.  We should move the discussion over
> to the plib devel list -- when we fix the problem there, it will be
> solved for FlightGear as well.

That's a known problem, unfortunately - see:

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1868/2002/7/50/9115573/


However, I am not a Windows programmer and I have no idea how to solve
this. If Julian Foad is right, we might need to rely on DirectX features to
determine the actual device name with USB joysticks.


- Sebastian