sending command TO a joystick

tft67 · Post by **tft67** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:26 am

I want to move an airplane from my irrlicht program.
Does any one know how to do this ?
Any idea ?

vinjn · Post by **vinjn** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:10 am

please have some time at irrlicht\examples\19.MouseAndJoystick\

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:17 am

Do you mean sending sending data to the hardware? Or do you mean simulating joystick events for ingame controls?

tft67 · Post by **tft67** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:32 pm

CuteAlien : It's exactly what i want to do : sending data to the hardware
vinj : 9.MouseAndJoystick sample just read data from the joystick.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:11 pm

Hm, yes - that is beyond the scope of a 3D engine. I know you can send some force-feedback stuff using DirectInput on Windows. Otherwise I think it's rather OS specific. You have to write to the game port (or usb?) and I have no real experience with that. Best you google for that. Might be especially hard if you have Vista or newer as I think those don't even come with game port drivers anymore.

edit: If this is some special device, then maybe you can get some driver-information for it from the manufacturer.

tft67 · Post by **tft67** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:20 pm

Ok.
Thank you for your answer.