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Gameport Input

Started by Dragoncar Jan 21, 2005 at 8:27 PM 1 reply 900+ views

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Jan 21, 2005 at 8:27 PM

Hi, Would someone beable to tell me if it is possible to detect a button press etc. on the gameport without having to poll. Preferably using directx or win32. And if so suggest how. Thanks in advance Edit: Forgot to post which language. Preferably c++ or c#

Endurion

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Endurion

Jan 22, 2005 at 12:28 AM

In both DirectX or Win32 there's now way around some function having to be called repeatedly to get the current state. AFAIK there is no event being called on a button press.

You'll have to poll and do difference checks.

Alex Baker

Jan 22, 2005 at 7:26 AM

Hi,

no, of course you can access the gameport; but over Win32 you can access it
only as joystick - i'm not sure what you are interested in to do, but reading
any binary data, for example from an external custom datasource, is not
possible with this functions.

the linky:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_joysticks.asp

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