I read:

...

I've listed the type of joystick I have, just in case it might help out with answering:

Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3d

on linux, mac: [hid] by H.C.Steiner on windows: i think [joystick], but don't really know

joystick (j. sarlo's) is linux only (AFAIT - I doubt you'll find /dev/js* on windos systems)

HTH

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

recognize it.

I've included the link to the file, if anyone is interested.

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/pd/ from there, about 1/2 to 2/3 down the page is the file "pd_joystick.***" ***= "zip" or "tar.gz" for windows and linux... I believe..

-RCGIV

-----Original Message----- From: slimboyfatboyslim [mailto:slimboyfatboyslim@slimboyfatboyslim.org] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:03 AM To: Robert Garvin; pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] using joysticks to control PD

hi,

I remembered that Hans once mentioned about the one with force feedback, which is a bit more expensive than the Wingman Extreme. I personally go for the extreme 3D one.

On linux, basically both of them are using the same driver, so there should be no problem, please let us know what you get.

Cheers, SFS

Robert Garvin wrote:

I recently learned how to use the qwerty keyboard to control different actions in pd.. is there a way I can use a joystick to do the same?

I've listed the type of joystick I have, just in case it might help out with answering:

Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3d

Thanks,

Robert.

On Feb 5, 2005, at 5:33 AM, Peter Todd wrote:

...

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.

I'd be interested to find out whether my [hid] external supports that
hat switch. It wouldn't be hard to add support for it. Its currently
GNU/Linux and Mac OS X only tho, donno if I'll do the Windows port.
Maybe someday.

.hc

Cheers, Peter

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