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

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

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Reagan Thomas <tho...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>

 Er, that would be the previously attached patch ;)