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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 15:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Brown <jabrown@caida.org>
Subject: [patch] SDL-1.2.5 + FreeBSD joystick axes, hat fixes
Hello again! When I sent in some SDL fixes last December, I found out
they'd already been fixed in the CVS version. This time, I checked the
repository before bugging you. =)
I'm using SDL-1.2.5 on a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE system, and in the course
of getting my multi-analog-axis USB controller (with a hat switch!)
working with d2x-sdl -- the SDL port of the Descent 2 engine -- I came
across a few problems:
1) The second analog stick is reported as a slider in one direction, and
"Rz" in the other. SDL was ignoring the Rz axis, so I added Rx/Ry/Rz to
the set of things SDL considers to be axes.
2) After the above change, the set of JOYAXE_* axes for my gamepad was
{0,1,3,7}; however, d2x-sdl expects the axes to be contiguously numbered
from 0, which seems like a pretty reasonable expectation, rather than
having to scan the entire space of axes that SDL may or may not have.
So, I added a table lookup which maps the JOYAXE_* axis numbers to 0,1,...
in the order they're detected by SDL_SYS_JoystickOpen(), when reporting
them to the application. I also added a function "usage_to_joyaxe()"
which maps the USB HUG_* usage values to JOYAXE_values, since the repeated
case statements testing for HUG_* were getting out of hand.
3) The BSD joystick driver had no hat support, so I added it. It looks
like our USB library can only support one hat switch per device, which
makes life easy.
The patch against SDL-1.2.5 which implements these changes is at:
http://www.caida.org/~jabrown/patches/sdl-1.2.5-bsdhat.diff
After applying, SDL's "testjoystick" reports all activity from my gamepad
correctly, and d2x works too (though it needed some other fixes).
Moving on...
There is also a problem with slightly different USBHID library interfaces
on different versions of FreeBSD. I wasn't going to mention this since the
FreeBSD port for SDL-1.2.5 (and not SDL itself) was doing the FreeBSD
version-specific patching, so I e-mailed the port maintainer with this
change. However, I see that you've incorporated the FreeBSD
version-checking stuff into the CVS version of SDL, so now it's relevant
for you too.
The problem is, the FreeBSD #if tests don't work right for FreeBSD
4.6.2-RELEASE. There may be other versions with this problem, but I've
only tested 4.6.2-R. The following patch against your latest CVS version
fixes this:
--- SDL_sysjoystick.c-1.16 Tue Apr 15 09:02:08 2003
+++ SDL_sysjoystick.c Sun Jun 1 15:10:28 2003
@@ -420,6 +420,8 @@
# else
len = hid_report_size(rd, repinfo[repind].kind, r->rid);
# endif
+# elif (__FreeBSD_version == 460002)
+ len = hid_report_size(rd, r->rid, repinfo[repind].kind);
# else
len = hid_report_size(rd, repinfo[repind].kind, &r->rid);
#endif
I hope this is all useful to you. I've been getting myself dizzy playing
Descent 2 with it, all morning!
-Jeff Brown
P.S. My USB controller is a Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Analog 2. That's
probably irrelevant, but I threw it in for completeness.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:50:22 +0000 |
parents | 136d97397288 |
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Proceed to change the dropbox selection to "Library Files" and add [SDLROOT]\lib.</FONT></STRONG> </P> <P> The "include directory" I am referring to is the <CODE>include</CODE> folder within the main SDL directory (the one that this HTML file located within). </P> <P> Now we're going to use the files that we had created earlier in the Build SDL step. </P> <P> Copy the following files into your Project directory: </P> <ul> <li> SDL.dll</li> </ul> <P> Add the following files to your project (It is not necessary to copy them to your project directory): </P> <ul> <li> SDL.lib </li> <li> SDLmain.lib</li> </ul> <P> (To add them to your project, right click on your project, and select "Add files to project") </P> <P><STRONG><FONT color="#009900">Instead of adding the files to your project it is more desireable to add them to the linker options: Project|Properties|Linker|Command Line and type the names of the libraries to link with in the "Additional Options:" box. 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