[gameprogrammer] Re: Input Translation


Nick Howes wrote:

>Scott Harper wrote:
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>>Here I have a problem.  I would like to create a (windows) program that 
>>reads game controller input (say, from my PS2 USB controller) using SDL 
>>(or similar library, I suppose), and then translates it to keyboard 
>>events so that I can use my controller with EverQuest 2.
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>>From those with experience, is this a reasonable thing to acheive?  (I 
>>double-posted to the SDL list to see if anyone there could help from 
>>the SDL side, but it got sent to the moderator for some reason... >.<)  
>>Is EQ2 even reading from an event queue?  If not, could I send info the 
>>the DirectInput reader somehow?
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>>Thanks for any help, even if it's explaining how/why it cannot be done.
>>--Ben
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>This program appears to do what you want, it's $13
>http://www.franknstik.com/
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>And this one is free. Joymap at the top of the page.
>http://www.linkdata.se/software.html
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>I'm assuming you asked the question so you could play EQ2, rather than 
>for the programming experience... if that's the case then these should 
>do the job, otherwise I don't know how to code something like that but 
>apparently it's possible :)
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>hope that helps
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often than not, that itch has been scratched :) Sometimes you can google 
for hours and have no luck, but the solution is sitting there, waiting 
to be snatched up, usually for free....

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