AJ wrote: > 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...
I think this makes sense. On a related note, I heard from a number of comments on the FG Forum that WIndows Vista isn't exporting the joystick identification strings for a lot of joysticks - so instead of "Saitek EVO superstik" js_demo displays "Generic USB Input Device", or similar. This breaks our lovely auto-detect code. I don't run Vista myself, so I have been unable to investigate whether this is a general limitation, or specific to some devices. If it is a general limitation, we may have to improve our joystick support to allow users to select a joystick by name at runtime, either on the command-line/wizard or within a dialog in the simulator. Unfortunately I suspect this is both hard, and thankless work :( -Stuart Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
