Where would I find the event-input code? If HIDAPI makes more sense I could
start looking at getting the panel recognized, where would me efforts be
most productive?
Pat
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:26 PM, James Turner <zakal...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 Jul 2013, at 20:54, Durk Talsma <durkt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also just a quick note from me. At the last FSWeekend, I got a sample
> radio panel from the Saitek Guys. IIRC, James Turner is/has been working on
> providing some of the groundwork and we agreed that while he was doing
> that, I'd put my efforts on getting the device working on hold. It's been a
> while ago since we last chatted about this, so I'm not really sure what the
> current status is.
>
>
> I've done some work on it, and will return to it once 2.12 is shipped.
>
> (My interest is in supporting the GoFlight hardware, which I've purchased
> several modules of, but it's all USB-HID in the end)
>
> The issue is basically about finishing Torsten Dreyer's event-input code,
> but also about potentially making that use hidapi (which would greatly
> simplify the code on the FG side), /if/ I can get the hidapi author to
> accept a patch adding HID descriptor parsing to the library as an extra.
>
> I've also separately had my GoFlight hardware working on Mac using the
> existing Mac event-input code, but encountered some issues, to do with the
> rate we pull data out of IOKit; essentially it's too easy to miss events
> which for certain inputs on the GoFlight panels (rotary encoders) causes
> odd behaviours.
>
> So yes, lots of these pieces exist, it needs some integration work and
> further development after 2.12. Torsten's current code is also incompatible
> with the current joystick config XML, which I think probably needs to be
> addressed in an adapter layer.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics
> Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics
> Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds.
> Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today!
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
> _______________________________________________
> Flightgear-devel mailing list
> Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
>
>
--
-----------------------------------------------------
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible
warning.
-Catherine
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics
Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics
Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds.
Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
