Re: [PD] using joysticks to control PD

I searched online and came across a PD patch that had a .dll file. What it does is it figures out the number of axes and buttons. The only remaining problems I'm having are:

1. getting the values to get to zero; and

It may be worth looking in the game devices properties in the control panel, apparantly there is a calibration wizard. There doesn't seem to be one for my sidewinder, but maybe it doesn't need it. You could always make a kind of 'calibrate/scale joystick' abstraction if it's still a problem.

2. there is an "8-way hat switch" on the wingman, and this patch doesn't

recognize it.

Yes, I have the same problem. I think it would be quite easy to make a [joystick] external which did recognise and use the hat, though.

Cheers, Peter