Hi all, I have recently discovered that FG is unable to properly support controllers with more than 32 buttons. That may seem like a very minor limitation, but in fact it hits not only current consumer-level joysticks like the Saitek X52 Pro but also many hobbyist USB HID boards (like this one, for example http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836A/ ).
Csaba has tracked down the the problematic bits of code and kindly provided a patch for both PLIB and FG... however, getting a patch into PLIB and getting a new PLIB release (which would be required for the FG patch to work) seems unlikely within tolerable timescales. The point was raised by others that perhaps now the time has come for us to suck the parts of plib we still rely on into the FG tree, which would remove the long standing problems with getting fixes into PLIB and releases on a less than glacial timescale. Of course, it would also reduce our dependency list by one item, which is always a good thing! Opinions on that? It seems unfortunate, to say the least, that we are unable to support widely available good quality controller hardware because of our reliance on apparently dead projects... Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
