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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:09:53 -0400 (EDT) From: David MacCormack Subject: [SDL] Linux joystick patch I recently got myself a PS2 -> USB converter (a super joybox 5). It accepts 4 PSX/PS2 controllers. It's implemented as a HID, which is nice because it doesn't require its own driver, but the problem is that it's implemented as a *single* HID -- that is, it shows up as a single joystick with 19 axes, 4 hats, and 48 buttons. This poses a problem for a number of apps which use SDL (stella, fce ultra, zsnes, to name a few) and see only a single (physical) joystick even though there are really 4 (logical) joysticks. There are a number of these types of devices on the market, and I've seen others post messages (in the zsnes forum, for example) with the same problem, so I came up with what I think is a pretty generic solution. I patched src/joystick/linux/SDL_sysjoystic.c to include support for logical joysticks; basically, it's a static array and supporting functions that map a single physical joystick to multiple logical joysticks. The attached patch has the new code. It's wrapped inside #ifndef statements so that you can get the old behavior if you want.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sun, 16 May 2004 18:46:24 +0000
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>SDL_JoystickOpen&nbsp;--&nbsp;Opens a joystick for use.</DIV
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>SDL_Joystick *joy;
// Check for joystick
if(SDL_NumJoysticks()&#62;0){
  // Open joystick
  joy=SDL_JoystickOpen(0);
  
  if(joy)
  {
    printf("Opened Joystick 0\n");
    printf("Name: %s\n", SDL_JoystickName(0));
    printf("Number of Axes: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumAxes(joy));
    printf("Number of Buttons: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumButtons(joy));
    printf("Number of Balls: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumBalls(joy));
  }
  else
    printf("Couldn't open Joystick 0\n");
  
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  if(SDL_JoystickOpened(0))
    SDL_JoystickClose(joy);
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