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Re: Joystick support
- From: "Abhijit Nandy" <abhijit dot nandy at gmail dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:32:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Joystick support
- References: <038B81BEAE154E93BCC56C12151B5F4D@abhiPC>
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.
Abhijit
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