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pygame: detect Joystick disconnect, and wait for it to be reconnected

I'm using a pygame.joystick.Joystick object and want to be able to print a message asking the user to reconnect a usb joystick once it's been unplugged. right now I have (roughly): js = pygame.joystick.Joystick(0) #... some game code and…
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How to know when a HID USB/Bluetooth device is connected in Cocoa?

How can I get a simple call back when a HID device, or at last, any USB/Bluetooth device gets connected/disconnected? I made a simple app that shows the connected joysticks and the pressed buttons/axis for mac in a pretty way. Since I am not very…
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WPF: How to implement joystick as alternative input device (C#)

I'm working on a simple point-and-click game for young children. Because some children have a physical limitation I would like to give them the possibility to use a joystick as an alternative input device. Can anyone give me some advice, tips or…
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Virtual Joystick in Android SDK

I want to make a virtual joystick in my Android application for controlling an RC car. How can I accomplish this? Is there an API that I can use to do this? The code samples that I have checked out online do not seem to work.
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Pygame Joystick.get_axis() always returns zero

I bought a Logitech Gamepad F310 to remotely control robotics. I am using Pygame (version 1.9.1, Python version 2.7.11+) on Linux Mint (release 18, Sarah). As a simple test to check the joystick's functionality, I wrote this short script that…
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Modern (.NET 4.5.2) C# Joystick capture method? DirectInput or HID or something else?

I'm having a hard tiem finding modern relevant C# information on capturing joystick data in VS 2015. All the examples i see use outdated DirectInput or some third party app (SlimDX) that hasn't been updated from what I can tell since 2012. Whats…
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Which is Right Way to Add Joystick in Unity3d , Adding on Scene Directly or Iniatiating it From Player Scripts

I have to add Joystick control in my Game I had done with Two Approaches both works well for me , but confused Which one to go with. 1) Initiating Joystick Control from Players Object/Script and getting inputs there. 2) Add Joystick Control…
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Accepting input while out of focus

I've never actual asked a question on Stack Overflow, though just about every programming question I've ever had I found an answer here. Sadly today is not one of those days. I've spent all day Googling, browsing the win32 api, and trying all sorts…
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Algorithm of the joystick on the touchable screen

I would like to simulate an analog joystick on the touchable screen like this picture. When the center of the stick area is set to (cx, cy), how should I calculate X-direction ratio and Y-direction ratio(-1.0～1.0) from the touched position(tx,…
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Using CCTouchDispatcher Cocos2d 2.0 Beta-2 ARC

I am creating a game with cocos2d 2.0 BETA 2.0 [The newest one]. And i need to add a joystick in other class. so I call this "CCTouchDispatcher" in my second class. But I can't call like this: [[CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher]…
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Set Joystick position using psychtoolbox

I am running an experiment involving a joystick (cannot use a mouse for technical reasons), using psychtoolbox version 3, on a linux computer. At discrete time-points in the experiment, I need to place the joystick cursor at pre-determined points on…
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Problem getting values from joystick axis

I am using the standard Unity Input Manager, not the new input system. I am connecting a joystick controller to my app, but it is not a standard Xbox/PSx type controller - it is a (Taranis) radio control transmitter of the type used on model…
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how to make sprite move upwards and downwards with joystick in pygame

I am trying to create a project that I have made before but apart from this time I am going to be using a play-station one remote I was given for free from my school. The problem that when I move the joystick upwards and downwards it shows the same…
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How to translate joystick angle & power to the view x,y i want to move?

I'm using this joystick to move a view on my screen, because i want to do a game. https://github.com/zerokol/JoystickView i can get the angle and the power of the movement of the joystick with this: joystick.setOnJoystickMoveListener(new…
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Joystick event handling in Haskell's SDL library

I am trying to write a small program that detects button inputs on a video game controller, using the Haskell SDL bindings. My program is rather simple: import Control.Monad (forever, when) import System.Exit (exitSuccess) import…
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