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Re: Input from 10 button Joy Stick [message #44372]

Thu, 09 June 2005 10:17

Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998

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raval.chintan wrote:

> Is it possible to take input from the joy stick in IDL? If Yes then how
> can we do this?

Only 10 buttons? You must have a girly joystick :)

As Ken pointed out I have written a win32 only .dlm which allows you to
get keyboard, mouse and *joystick* input from within IDL. It works
great and the only downside is that the devices need to be polled for
their status. Usually not an issue.

It's pretty straightforward. The little demo program is all you should
need to get up and running. And although the website says it has been
tested on 5.5-6.0 on Win2k, it really has been tested on 5.5-6.2 on
Win2k and WinXP.

http://www.acoustics.washington.edu/~towler/programs/directI nputDLM.zip

Enjoy!

-Rick

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Re: Input from 10 button Joy Stick [message #44389 is a reply to message #44372]

Thu, 09 June 2005 05:35

Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000

Senior Member

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 raval.chintan@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to take input from the joy stick in IDL? If Yes
> then how can we do this?

Yes it is. I think the best place to start is here:
http://www.acoustics.washington.edu/~towler/directInputDLM.h tml

And I'm sure Rick will have a better reply once he gets around to
reading your message.

I think that code is Windows only. Are you using OS X or Linux? If
yes then I think you want to find the /dev device that the joystick
is using and use the IDL SOCKET command to read it. However, I'm not
sure if this is possible, or if you would be able to decode the
device outputs...

-k.

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Re: Input from 10 button Joy Stick [message #44473 is a reply to message #44372]

Wed, 15 June 2005 22:56

raval.chintan
Messages: 54
Registered: May 2005

Member

Dear Rick,

Sorry , i m replying you after a long time. Because i m bit busy this
days with other work. By the way thank you for your suggestion. But i
want a solution which is supported by all the plateform that are
supported by the idl.
So for that what do u suggest ?

Thank You.
Chintan Raval

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