More DirectInput issues

Original Post

May 3, 2012 at 6:02 AM

Something new.

My joystick, a Saitek X-52 stick and throttle, is reporting as a 1st person, 6DOF device and my pedals report as a limited joystick when I query dwDevType of DIDEVICEINSTANCE. The product name is reporting fine, but not the device type.

Is dwDevType worth the query? I was hoping to get an informational rundown on game devices, but it doesn't seem to give valid responses.

kunos

May 3, 2012 at 6:35 AM

not really, at the end of the day all you need is a query for axes and buttons and let the user assign them to whatever they want.

jfalstaff

May 3, 2012 at 6:58 AM

Ok, the axis and buttons are easy enough.

One last statement, in the enumerated object list, there was two values (I'm filtering them out now) labeled "Collection 0 - Joystick" and "Collection 1 - Joystick" that didn't seem to have any data associated with them. I'm assuming these were for linking directly into the HID interface. Is that a correct assumption?

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