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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:14:00 +0200
From: "Eckhard Stolberg"
Subject: Controller names in SDL for Windows
I'm working on an Atari 2600 emulator for different systems that uses
the SDL. Some time ago someone created an adaptor that lets you use
your old Atari controllers with your computer through the USB port.
Some of the Atari controllers require special handling by the emulator,
so it would be nice, if it would be possible to detect if any of the
controllers connected to the computer is this adaptor.
SDL would allow that with the SDL_JoystickName function, but unfortunately
it doesn't work properly on Windows. On Linux and MacOSX this function
returns the name of the controller, but on Windows you'll only get the
name of the joystick driver. Most joysticks nowadays use the generic
Microsoft driver, so they all return the same name.
In an old MSDN article
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarinput/html/msdn_extdirect.asp)
Microsoft describes how to read out the OEM controller names from the registry.
I have implemented this for the SDL controller handler on Windows,
and now reading the joystick name works properly there too.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:45:58 +0000 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE > </HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" > <HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="PREFACE" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN8" >Introduction</A ></H1 ><P >This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux, Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces, (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P ><P >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/" TARGET="_top" >cross-compilation</A > environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P ><P >An introduction to SDL can be found online at: <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A > </P ><P >There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive, available on the <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/download.html" TARGET="_top" >SDL download page</A >.</P ><P >For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try some of the following links: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/" TARGET="_top" >Game Programming Links</A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/" TARGET="_top" >Game Developer Search Engine</A ></P ></LI ></UL ></P ><P >Enjoy!</P ><P > Sam Lantinga <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" ><A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" TARGET="_top" >slouken@libsdl.org</A ></A >></TT ></P > <P> <br><br><HR> <H1>Table of Contents</H1> <UL> <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI> </UL> </UL> </DIV ></BODY ></HTML >