[Plib-devel] [Patch] Re: joystick OEMName fix for Windows XP/Vista

[Reagan T. <tho...@gm...>]

I apologize for not putting [Patch] in the subject line previously.
The attached patch is to allow plib to correctly return the joystick
OEMName when "getOEMProductName" is called under Windows Vista.

This patch is to jsWindows.cxx which causes (in my tests) the joystick
OEMName to be properly returned by "getOEMProductName" in both Windows
XP and Vista. In my tests today, under Windows XP SP3, both the last
release plib "getOEMProductName" and the latest from trunk with the
attached patch return the proper OEMName for my Saitek joystick. Under
Windows Vista, plib trunk only returns the correct value with the
attached patch applied. I am still unable to test under Windows 2000
or earlier.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Reagan Thomas <tho...@gm...> wrote:
> It seems that Microsoft no longer (Vista and maybe XP) places the
> joystick OEMName in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, causing "getOEMProductName" to
> fail. Instead, the joystick name can be found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
>
> The attached patch has been tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista
> with "JS_demo.exe" from the FlightGear project. If it fails to read
> the value from HKLM, it attempts to read it from HKCU. I do not have
> access to Win2k or 9x versions for testing.
>
> Thanks.
>