On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

Hey Frank,

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I would recommend J. Sarlo's joystick-external. It works on all OSses
AFAIR.

Since Hans pointed out it doesn't work under OSX, I think the next best
option is for me to write an external that uses SDL calls to read from
the joystick, since that library works on all platforms. Will report
back here when that's done.

When I started [hid], I explored many options including SDL. It provides a very limited interface to the devices, but is relatively easy to use. I suppose an SDL object would be useful in specific circumstances, like on obscure platforms. Do you have a specific problem with [hid] besides not working on Windows?

You could also join Olaf Matthes, David Merrill, and I on working on the next generation of [hidin]/[hid]/[input_noticer] that will work on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. By lucky chance, David was in NYC so we met yesterday about this. And by another lucky chance, Olaf is getting into NYC and we are going to be meeting about this soon.

.hc

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