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Actually, this is a better fix...clear the error state once if everything we need loaded; it's more efficient, and works even if the last unnecessary xrandr symbol failed to load. Otherwise, leave the original loadso error, so the end user can find out what symbol failed.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:00:10 +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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>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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> 1. The value returned by <TT
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis</TT
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>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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>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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