OIS Integration Tutorial

[pc0de]

Let's focus on Linux for now. If you downloaded the source instead of using CVS, please try using OIS from CVS:

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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@wgois.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wgois login
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@wgois.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wgois co -P ois

Also, I'm still curious about questions 3 & 4 so please post the output from "ls -l /dev/input/event*" before and after you connect the Joystick.

Me thinking out loud: Now that Irrlicht has Joystick support, would it be better to add Force Feedback also as a compile option? I'd be willing to create the patch and it would be one less library to worry about...

[hybrid]

If you have some idea on how to do force feedback in Irrlicht then show us how.

[pc0de]

It isn't that I'm an expert on Force Feedback, instead I'm fairly certain that I could adapt what OIS is currently doing. And because OIS is licensed under zlib/libpng, I don't think that would be a problem. I would probably use similar interface classes to upload, start, and stop FF effects.

OIS uses DirectInput for FF on Windows so that would be a dependency. Do you think that would be an issue within Irrlicht?

[hybrid]

Well, some investigations about other implementations could help, but I guess that as long as it's only an option for special cases we could still add it. Maybe we can also get a DirectInput joystick option?!

[pc0de]

Well, some investigations about other implementations could help

Agreed.

Maybe we can also get a DirectInput joystick option?!

Agree again. I'll do some additional research.

[netpipe]

https://github.com/wgois/OIS/pull/74 put the tutorial here and also found an issue with microsoft steering wheel forcefeedback not working