joygetposex

Hey,

Did anyone ever get the function joygetposex to work properly in vb.net??? This is my code. But the message is always 0.

VB Code:

Private Const JOY_BUTTON1 = &H1
    Private Const JOY_BUTTON2 = &H2
 
    Private Const JOY_BUTTON1CHG = &H100
    Private Const JOY_BUTTON2CHG = &H200
 
    Private Const JOY_RETURNBUTTONS = &H80&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNCENTERED = &H400&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNPOV = &H40&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNPOVCTS = &H200&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNR = &H8&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNRAWDATA = &H100&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNU = &H10
    Private Const JOY_RETURNV = &H20
    Private Const JOY_RETURNX = &H1&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNY = &H2&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNZ = &H4&
    Private Const JOY_RETURNALL = (JOY_RETURNX Or JOY_RETURNY Or JOY_RETURNZ Or JOY_RETURNR Or JOY_RETURNU Or JOY_RETURNV Or JOY_RETURNPOV Or JOY_RETURNBUTTONS)
 
    Private Const JOY_USEDEADZONE = &H800&
    Private Const MAXPNAMELEN = 32
    Private Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1
 
    Private Const JOYERR_BASE = 160
    Private Const JOYERR_NOCANDO = (JOYERR_BASE + 6)
    Private Const JOYERR_NOERROR = (0)
    Private Const JOYERR_PARMS = (JOYERR_BASE + 5)
    Private Const JOYERR_UNPLUGGED = (JOYERR_BASE + 7)
 
    Private Const JOYSTICKID1 = 0
    Private Const JOYSTICKID2 = 1
 
    ' ===================================
    ' Declaration of User Defined types both private and public
 
    Private Structure JOYINFOEX
        Friend dwSize As Integer                 '  size of structure
        Friend dwFlags As Integer                '  flags to indicate what to return
        Friend dwXpos As Integer                 '  x position
        Friend dwYpos As Integer                 '  y position
        Friend dwZpos As Integer                 '  z position
        Friend dwRpos As Integer                 '  rudder/4th axis position
        Friend dwUpos As Integer                 '  5th axis position
        Friend dwVpos As Integer                 '  6th axis position
        Friend dwButtons As Integer              '  button states
        Friend dwButtonNumber As Integer         '  current button number pressed
        Friend dwPOV As Integer                  '  point of view state
        Friend dwReserved1 As Integer            '  reserved for communication between winmm driver
        Friend dwReserved2 As Integer            '  reserved for future expansion
    End Structure
 
    ' ======================================
    ' Event Arguments for ErrorOccured event
    ' ======================================
    Private Declare Function joyGetPosEx Lib "winmm.dll" (ByVal uJoyID As Integer, ByRef pji As JOYINFOEX) As Integer
 
 
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim a As JOYINFOEX
 
        a.dwSize = Len(a)
        a.dwFlags = JOY_RETURNBUTTONS
 
        joyGetPosEx(JOYSTICKID1, a)
        MessageBox.Show(a.dwButtons)
    End Sub

Never mind.

You are in luck fella!

Go check this out...

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...71#post1826471
(download the zip file and use the DLL in your project)

This DLL (written by me and some of the ChitChat crew) contains a joystick class that completely wraps this API and a few others to deliver advanced multiple joystick support to your games.

Please feel free to read the rest of that thread from the start, it'll fill you in on a few details. :D

At the moment there is no documentation, but this is only the alpha test release. We would really appreciate your help with testing if you could :thumb:

Cheers. :cool:

the docs are going to suck, anyways. just, because!

I have downloaded the Sandpaper.dll. but I didn't find anything about joystick. I see there is no documentation, but the sample projects don't mention how to access the joystick wrapper either.

You have to add a reference to the sandnet.dll file.

There may be a reference already there, so delete it and add a new reference by browsing to the dll manually.

You can use the joystick wrapper either my manually polling the data, or by using its event driven mode.

You are right about the docs though. We never got around to writing them :D

it's ok
i downloaded the DX9 sdk and the sample app for joystick was pretty straightforward.
Thanks for the follow-up though.