Questions tagged [joystick]

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Why is this GLFW program not polling for joysticks?

I'm using GLFW to record the states of joysticks in a robotics project, and came across something strange. On a Macbook Air, running 10.11.3, GLFW only returns the state of the joysticks at the beginning of the program. The documentation claims that…
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Dealing with simultaneous button presses and changing shift states

I am currently working on a (Python2.5) application which handles input from a game controller. We've designated a button as a shift button to change the mapping (inputtype,value->function) of the other buttons on the fly. The mapping also depends…
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Java getting an input from a joystick like an xbox conroler without using an external api

This might just be me not finding it anywhere but how would I go about getting a joystick input from something like an xbox controller without using any external apis to help me. Most of what I found using an api called JInput.
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Programming Arduino Mega using joystick to control DC motor

I am trying to control a DC Motor using a joystick with an Arduino Mega. I have been able to run the DC motor, as well as finding the potentiometer values of the joystick separately. I am using just the y-axis of the joystick in order to have the…
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Implement a small C DLL to interface between our C++ code and RawInput

After reading this Stack Overflow article, SlimDX: Joystick.Poll() succeeds on disconnected gamepad we decided to drop Windows 7 DirectInput altogether, and move to Windows 7 RawInput. We need to implement a small C DLL to interface between my C++…
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Arduino joystick to web gamepad

I'm using a Arduino Leonardo with a b10k pot. I want to have this pot act as a gamepad (paddle) in a HTML-game. I'm using ArduinoJoystickLibrary and mapping the analog value(0-1023) to a range of -127 to 127. Like…
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JoyStick only moves when Camera Controls = true Xcode, SWIFT, SpriteKit, SceneKit

Hey I have a 3D game thats not really a game yet. But it has a SceneKit 3D scene and a overlayskscene for the HUD/Controls. the "base" is the base of the joystick and the ball is the handle the problem is that the joystick does not move at all…
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DirectX DirectInput won't detect connected devices

I'm trying to use a joystick in my C# WPF application using directX (using Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput;), but for some odd reason I keep getting an error in the first line where I try to detect all the connected devices. All I have in my…
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How do I access a joystick's product name in OpenTK?

All I see is a string property called Description which simply returns a generated string of the hardware index, and axis/button count. "Joystick/Joystick #0 (7 axes, 10 buttons)" is usable, but not very informative. Other SDL-based libraries show…
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How to setup dji L2 api demo?

I'm intended to create an android app in which you can control the drone (in my case phantom 2 vision) I want to control it using a virtual joystick, I already have the Level 2 API. To do that I wanted to see a "working app" with my own eyes, to…
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Python3 reading USB joystick

I am very green to python and python3. Most of my background has come from microprocessor work such as arduinos and basic stamp. So I am writing something for being able to control an IP camera from a joystick. Plan is to use something like a Pi to…
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navigator.getGamepads() return an array of undefineds

[Edit added 17 Sept 2015] In the latest version of Google Chrome I am calling: var arr = navigator.getGamepads(); which results in: arr = [undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined]; I have a Logitech Pro connected in a usb port on my pc. I am…
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Add joystick controls in unity for android game

I want to know if there is a way to control a 3d boat with a joystick to publish the game on android devices. The boat moves only when using desktop keys. I am using this C# code: void Update () { float h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); float…
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Save joystick list

How can I save and load List of SlimDX.DirectInput.Joystick to/from a file? I tried using (Stream stream = File.Open("joys.xml", FileMode.Create)) { var bformatter = new System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter(); …
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Why does the x & y values not increment?

I am building a virtual joystick and this is part of the code that I made so that when the joystick is in between a certain value the x and y value will keep on incrementing by a certain value for instance when the joystick is between 1 and 20 for…
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