1.5 joystick support question

[3DModelerMan]

Is 1.5 going to support joystick hats(D-pad)?. Rumble would be nice to ("hint" "hint") .
Thanks .

[rogerborg]

Is 1.5 going to support joystick hats(D-pad)?. Rumble would be nice to ("hint" "hint") .
Thanks .

Hats are supported to the extent that the underlying libraries expose them, i.e. explicitly on Windows, indirectly on Linux (the hat comes through as two axes instead) and... uh... OSX is doing whatever OSX does.

Rumble / force feedback, no, I'm not planning that. It's output rather than input, I'm not convinced that Linux support for it is robust, and nor do I want to rely on DInput on Windows.

I have no aversion to testing someone else's impleementation, "hint" "hint".

[3DModelerMan]

Thanks for the response. I only really need the hat support, but I'll read up on the rumble/force feedback .

[Brainsaw]

You could try the OIS integration from the Irrlicht Wiki (http://www.irrlicht3d.org/wiki/index.ph ... thIrrlicht). Haven't tried it yet but I will, and it seems to support everything you need.

[rogerborg]

Honestly, I'd give OIS a try. Joystick support in Irrlicht isn't likely to be a high priority, and the native Linux joystick API doesn't deal with hats. I'm (vaguely) interested in how OIS is getting hat information on Linux, but not enough to look into it.

[3DModelerMan]

Yeah I might try OIS. I really like the way SDL lets you test joystick input inside the main loop though. If there was a way I could get SDL to work cross platform being compiled on one machine, that would be the best, although OIS force feedback is looking nice.