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[TuxKart-devel] Problem with Joysticks on Tuxkart for windows

[Brian <ga...@ix...>]

Hello everyone, I did a crude port of TuxKart to work on MSVC and noticed
that the joystick was not working.  The windows control panel was properly
recognizing the joystick.  So I tried the Plib example on for joysticks.  I
found that the demo did not work with my Gravis XTerminator gamepad, but
would work with my old 2 button joystick.  Has anyone else every experienced
this problem.  I definately not an expert on joystick programming, but do
newer joysticks need to use DirectX to access them.  I am using Windows 98,
Plib 1.2,Glut 3.7, MSVC 6.0.
Thanks
Brian Gavin
ga...@ix...

Re: [TuxKart-devel] Problem with Joysticks on Tuxkart for windows

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Brian wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, I did a crude port of TuxKart to work on MSVC and noticed
> that the joystick was not working.  The windows control panel was properly
> recognizing the joystick.  So I tried the Plib example on for joysticks.  I
> found that the demo did not work with my Gravis XTerminator gamepad, but
> would work with my old 2 button joystick.  Has anyone else every experienced
> this problem.

I have had no reports of that problem.

PLIB's JS "library" (it's really just a header file) uses the standard Windoze
joystick API - so there *shouldn't* be a problem.

Does your Gravis stick work with other programs?

> I definately not an expert on joystick programming, but do
> newer joysticks need to use DirectX to access them.

Perhaps.

I'm no windoze expert myself (I havn't used Windoze at all since 3.1!) but
IIRC, people have told me in the past that incorporating Direct-X into PLIB
would be a major headache.

Can someone comment on that?

> I am using Windows 98,
> Plib 1.2,Glut 3.7, MSVC 6.0.

Seems reasonable.

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