Re: [Stella-devel] Stelladaptor detection

[Eckhard S. <Eck...@we...>]

> I just got a message back from the SDL wrt this problem.  Someone 
> already made a patch (against SDL 1.2.5) that uses DirectInput for the 
> joystick names, and it accomplishes mostly the same thing.  I'll be 
> looking at it over the weekend in an attempt to create a custom SDL DLL 
> for Windows.

OK, I just tested the code you posted a link to in the other
message with SDL 1.2.7, and it does show the joystick names
properly. So we could use it to auto-detect the Stelladaptor.

The only problem with it is that it only uses DirectX for input.
The SDL under Windows is supposed to fall back to GDI/WinMM
functions if DirectX isn't available. This is why it uses
the WinMM functions for joystick input by default. So, if we
want the Stelladaptor detection fix to be added to the
official version of the SDL, it would be better, if we
used the WinMM joystick functions for it.


Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg