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

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

Sebastian Ude wrote:
> 
> Well, it is the job of you flightgear guys to find out which joysticks show
> up under which names under different operating systems and to adjust your
> database accordingly.
> 
> As you said, getting *something* is still better than the default driver
> name.

Yes, we'll do that.  What I meant was that, if possible, we should try 
to find a method that returns the same name under Windows that it does 
under Linux.


> I checked a slightly modified version of the stuff into CVS.

OK, that looks good and I just checked that it still works.


> That brings up a scary idea: Perhaps the Microsoft employee had not too
> much knowledge about pointers and arrays in C, just saw that the function
> requires a pointer as it third argument and hence took the address of the
> array. Of course, the compiler complained about the programmer passing
> "unsigned char **" to a function expecting "unsigned char *", and in
> good-old Microsoft fashion he placed a cast to make the compiler shut up
> ..

I fear you are probably right.  I have seen this sort of thing many times.

- Julian