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

[Frederic B. <fr...@wa...>]

From: "Sebastian Ude" <ud...@ha...>
>
> > 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.

It is probably better that the names returned by Linux are different from
those returned by Windows as I discovered that the axes layout differ for
the same joystick whether it is used under Linux or Windows.

Cheers,

-Fred