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Added a few things to the TODO list. Unit testing is becoming more and more important the more features are added and the more combinations of factors there are to test.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:23:11 +0000
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis</H1
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the current state of an axis</DIV
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>Sint16 <B
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis</B
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>(SDL_Joystick *joystick, int axis);</CODE
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> returns the current state of the given <TT
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>axis</I
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> on the given <TT
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>joystick</I
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>On most modern joysticks the X axis is usually represented by <TT
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>axis</I
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> 0 and the Y axis by <TT
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>axis</I
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> 1. The value returned by <TT
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis</TT
> is a signed integer (-32768 to 32768) representing the current position of the <TT
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><I
>axis</I
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>, it maybe necessary to impose certain tolerances on these values to account for jitter. It is worth noting that some joysticks use axes 2 and 3 for extra buttons.</P
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>Returns a 16-bit signed integer representing the current position of the <TT
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>axis</I
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>Sint16 x_move, y_move;
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x_move=SDL_JoystickGetAxis(joy1, 0);
y_move=SDL_JoystickGetAxis(joy1, 1);</PRE
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