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

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

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002, jul...@bt... (Julian Foad) wrote:
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 11:41:38 +0100
> To: pli...@li...
> From: jul...@bt... (Julian Foad)
> Reply-To: pli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Plib-devel] Re: WIN32 USB joystick name problem - possible
> fix [was: Joystick documentation problem]

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> 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.

That's difficult to impossible. I just checked the Linux joystick driver
sources, and the joystick names are *not* read from the hardware in some
way, but are hard-coded into the drivers. My assumption is that the same
applies for the Windows drivers, too.

So unsurprisingly, the hard-coded device names in the Windows drivers
*slightly* differ from the strings in the Linux drivers for some joysticks.
The only way to work around that problem which I see is to write down *all*
names a particular joystick appears under with different operating systems.

It *may* be that with USB joysticks the name is directly read from the
hardware, though, but I am not sure about that.


- Sebastian