Using Game Port

[steviep]

Can anyone tell me how I could recognise the fire buttons being pressed on a game pad?

Preferably by just using one of the Windows .dlls (i.e. not Direct X), but if I have to Direct X.

All Help Gratefully Received!

Stevie P
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[hypnos]

It can be done with Windows APIs. I have never done it myself so I will just name the APIs and then you can go on to the API Viewer and experiment with them. Here they are: JoyGetDevCaps, JoyGetNumDevs and JoyGetPos. This is everything you need to use the gamepad/joystick.

[Satcomguru]

follow this link. It has a brief explanation of those commands and an example. http://www.vbapi.com/ref/funca.html