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Re: Joystick support
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:40:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Joystick support
- References: <038B81BEAE154E93BCC56C12151B5F4D@abhiPC> <A55EFFEAAA6140E5AB187FE4202F4C38@abhiPC>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Abhijit Nandy wrote:
>Hi,
>I am doing a hardware project that exposes some hardware data as a joystick
>in Linux at /dev/input/js0
>
>I thought I could use Cygwin for testing my programs that use this joystick
>data but it seems Cygwin does not have the nodes at /dev/js0 and may not be
>able to read the joystick. Is there any way to get joystick data through
>this node in Cygwin. I cannot use glut or SDL for joystick input.
>
>Also I do not have a joystick to test with so I am using PPJoy which is a
>parallel port joystick emulator. It convert mouse movements to joystick
>movement. It provides an API as well through which its data is accessible
>
>I was thinking perhaps I could make a character file at
>C:\cygwin\dev\input\js0 and then direct the data from PPjoy to this file in
>the format expected by my program. Of course this copying of data has to be
>done in a separate win32 application that will update this file and so it
>may lock it. In which case my program running in Cygwin cannot access it.
>
>Any ideas on how to do this better ? I need to have some way of getting
>joystick data into my linux program without using any library.
There is no "device driver" support for joysticks in Cygwin. Unless the
joystick looks like a device which cygwin knows about (like a com port)
there really isn't any way that you can make the DLL recognize it.
cgf
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