joyGetPosEx

[vbgladiator]

Hey,

I am using that joystick to retrieve when a button is being pressed on a device.
It works fine when it is connected to the game port.
I am using one that is connected to an adapter which in turn is plugged into an USB port.
The function doesn't return anything.
How can I find out whether a user has pressed anything with the joystick is USB??

Thanks,

[kleinma]

you would probably be much better off using DirectX (DirectInput) for joystick inputs... i think those joystick apis you are using are pretty outdated and probably don't extend to the functionality of USB pads that are plug and play with directX

[vbgladiator]

I have never worked with directx.
Do you know of any tutorials that I can take a look at?
Any links would be greatly appreciated.

[kleinma]

well first off i would recommend using directX 7 or 8 instead of directX9

reason being is that if you are making a game (i guess since you are talking about a joystick and foot pedal objects ) some users video cards may not support directX9, but its backwards compatible with 7 or 8 so basically if you used 7 then people with 7, 8, and 9 should have no problems, and you aren't losing any functionality in the newer versions i dont think because usually its more to do with graphics than input

but really i guess it depends on the case...


as far as links... the best to give you is MS

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/s...n&categoryid=2

the SDKs (for 9 at least) have .NET samples, i honestly don't know if you can even download a DX7 SDK anymore... anyways hope this helps a little