[haiku-development] Re: Joysticks in Haiku
- From: "Carwyn" <cdj1000@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:19:08 +0000
> Hi,
>
> --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Carwyn <cdj1000@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been doing some experimenting and have thought of an
> > idea, how about using the USBKit from userland to get the
> > info for joysticks, gamepads etc. Any thoughts on this idea?.
> >
> > I've tested my idea and can read a Gravis Gamepad Pro status
> > and also a Xbox 360 controller using the USBKit InterruptTransfer
> > function. Would this be an acceptable way to implement BJoystick
> > etc at least for USB devices.
> >
> > This is done in linux's Xbox/Xbox360 USB Gamepad Userspace
> > Driver which was made by Ingo Ruhnke. All that needs to be
> > done is get the endpoint for the device and InterruptTransfer
> > 32 bytes, and all the buttons, axes etc are available.
> >
> > I'll upload my code to haiku dev so someone can test
> > it, i've only tested a wired Xbox 360 controller.
>
> It is preferred that you attach a patch to a ticket. See
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches#Preparingtocreatepatchfile
> >
> Regarding your previous code attachments, did you write the
> GamepadDevice.cpp and header? If so, you assigned the copyright to
Michael Lotz instead of to Haiku, Inc. or yourself. Either would be
fine.
>
> Also, Kirilla and I made a working patch from the zipped code that
> you attached to http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7354, but we were
uncertain as to what the patch/code actually did. I applied the patch
to r40968 but did not see any change in how Haiku handled gamepads. I
could not setup a gamepad in neither BeSMSPlus 0.94, nor BeSnesx 1.41.
>
> Thanks for your contributions. Please let me know how I could help
> test your changes.
>
> -D
>
Disraeli,
I'm sorry but the GamepadDevice patch won't work on it's own without my
BJoystick modifications and they aren't ready yet, i'm just
experimenting with a few things and i'm going to upload some stuff to
my website which you can download if you like, the BJoystick can be
used as a seperate library in an apps folder. I've uploaded my
userland joystick xbox360 test app here http://www.cemist.f2s.com/xbox360.zip
I'll change the GamepadDevice.cpp to be my copyright or Haiku, I want
to make sure that my code does things the right way before moving
forward and submitting patches which could be useless. I think the
userland joystick is a good idea, but others may not.
I'll upload my BJoystick code tomorrow to my website and then you can
test your joystick with the GamepadDevice.cpp.
Carwyn
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