Hi,
I am trying to use SDL with vc8. I’ve been having quite a few problems.
The library won’t even compile for starters, but I’m not asking about
that now. I want to know why the _SDL_Joystick structure is defined in
SDL_sysjoystick.h instead of SDL_joystick.h?
A comment seems to indicate that this struct is system specific “/* This
is the system specific header for the SDL joystick API */”. Is this
correct?
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I am trying to use SDL with vc8. I’ve been having quite a few problems.
The library won’t even compile for starters, but I’m not asking about
that now. I want to know why the _SDL_Joystick structure is defined in
SDL_sysjoystick.h instead of SDL_joystick.h?
A comment seems to indicate that this struct is system specific “/* This
is the system specific header for the SDL joystick API */”. Is this
correct?
Maybe I will sound trollish, but to me SDL joystick is not something I can
trust to. For example, some modern USB HID devices, such as Saitek pads
calibrate as many as 24 axes during init event, causing SDL parachute crash
due to massive buffer overflows in joystick init. I would suggest using a
different API if you do not wish to debug dirty SDL internals. I ended up
with some 30 lines of pure python code interfacing linux kernel legacy
joystick API directly, on windows you can stick with DirectInput and you’ll
get user configurability for free.
Petr KocmidOn Friday 11 of March 2005 11:36, Roadkill wrote:
I don’t mind if it doesn’t work on every system, this is a quick and
dirty program (parts of it anyway). I just noticed this when I got an
error. It couldn’t compile the program because it doesn’t know the size
of the SDL_Joystick struct. Some how vc7 is able to compile this. I’m
not sure if thats because vc8 is closer to the standard or just a beta.
It might be better to move the struct into SDL_joystick.h.
Anyway, I guess I’ll just have to define the struct.
Tyler
Petr Kocmid wrote:>On Friday 11 of March 2005 11:36, Roadkill wrote:
I am trying to use SDL with vc8. I’ve been having quite a few problems.
The library won’t even compile for starters, but I’m not asking about
that now. I want to know why the _SDL_Joystick structure is defined in
SDL_sysjoystick.h instead of SDL_joystick.h?
A comment seems to indicate that this struct is system specific “/* This
is the system specific header for the SDL joystick API */”. Is this
correct?
Maybe I will sound trollish, but to me SDL joystick is not something I can
trust to. For example, some modern USB HID devices, such as Saitek pads
calibrate as many as 24 axes during init event, causing SDL parachute crash
due to massive buffer overflows in joystick init. I would suggest using a
different API if you do not wish to debug dirty SDL internals. I ended up
with some 30 lines of pure python code interfacing linux kernel legacy
joystick API directly, on windows you can stick with DirectInput and you’ll
get user configurability for free.
Petr Kocmid
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