[Plib-devel] Re: WIN32 USB joystick name problem - possible fix [was: Joystick documentation problem]

[Julian F. <jul...@bt...>]

Sebastian Ude wrote (to flightgear-devel):
 >
 > I found the following code in the MSDN database:
...
 > What do you think about it ?

Bingo!  Thank you for finding this.  It works under CygWin, so I hope it 
will work under all versions of Windows, both under CygWin and natively 
(MSVC).

I believe there are combinations of Windows version and joystick type 
for which the existing method works.  A big question for people to 
investigate is: does this new method report the same name?

For my joystick it gives "Saitek Cyborg 3D Stick USB" which isn't the 
same as the (Linux?) name in 
$FG_BASE/Input/Joysticks/Saitek/Cyborg-Gold-3d-USB.xml: <name>SAITEK 
CYBORG 3D USB</name> but it is easy to add both names.  Maybe my 
joystick is a slightly different model, or maybe this is still not _the_ 
name obtained from the hardware.  This difference is a little worrying, 
but it is still infinitely better than the plain default driver name 
that we were getting.

I was thinking about putting it into the new js.cxx, but I suppose we 
should keep that clean for a few months (until the next release) to give 
people time to update their old apps to include the new library.  So 
I'll dump it into js.h for now.

Patch attached.  Perhaps you would check it in so that people can try it 
out and decide whether it's good enough.  I corrected the 
max-name-length handling in the example code that you sent (from 
Microsoft?), but otherwise left it as it is.

- Julian