Castle Paradox

[sotrain515]

Hello all,

I am trying to add joystick support to my game, but it does not seem to be able to recognize input other than two buttons. I am using a Gravis GamePad Pro for testing. I have tried both the "key is pressed" and the "joystick button" commands, and other than the first two buttons (key:button 1 / joystick button(1) and key:button 2 / joystick button(2)) and the axes, it does not read any other button presses.

Is this because it's a really old controller? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Bob the Hamster]

Could be an engine bug. The joystick code hasn't gotten much love.

We have had support for 2 buttons since forever, but the code for buttons 3-9 might be buggy, or might have only been tested with certain backends

[TMC]

Not exactly a bug. Rather, nobody bother to support more than 2 buttons and the first joystick in the gfx_sdl 'backend' (which is the default).

(I think) I've just added support for up to 8 joyticks and 16 buttons per joystick to gfx_sdl, but I don't actually have a joystick to test with. You can test it out by downloading the next 'nightly' build, tomorrow.

Alternatively, you can use a nightly with the old gfx_fb backend immediately, which already supports those things: http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/nightly/ohrrpgce-wip-fb-sdl.zip. gfx_fb is buggier.

The other backends don't support joysticks at all.
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[sotrain515]

Thanks so much, James and Mad Cacti! I will download the nightly either tonight or tomorrow (whenever I have some time) and let you know if it works.

[sotrain515]

The nightly worked great! I can confirm full joystick support with my Gravis GamePad Pro for its D-Pad and all 10 of its buttons. Thanks again!

[TMC]

Glad to help.

Hmm, someone else said they had a 12 button joystick. Clearly the 16 button limit needs to be raised.
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