[Plib-devel] Fwd: [PATCH] Joystick under Windows 7

[John F. F. <joh...@cy...>]

Gentlemen,

         I am putting the following patch into SVN right about 
now.  It fixes the joystick behavior under Windows 7.

                 - John F. Fay

>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:40:52 +0100
>From: Frederic Bouvier <fre...@fr...>
>To: "joh...@cy..." <joh...@cy...>
>Subject: [PATCH] Joystick under Windows 7
>
>Hi John,
>
>Please excuse this mail sent directly to you but I am not subscribed to
>plib-devel list.
>
>I am in the process to build the Win32 version of the next FlightGear
>release, and found a problem in the joystick code. Under Windows 7, plib
>is not able to extract the correct name of the installed joystick. There
>was already a patch from Reagan Thomas last year for Vista and just
>found that his patch needed also to be applied somewhere else. In short,
>joystick registry settings changed and the name should also be searched
>in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in addition to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The new patch
>that I already applied to my build is attached.
>
>Regards,
>-Fred
>
>