> This one has been churning around in my head for ages, and I finally bought a 
> couple of joysticks to experiment with.
>
> I want to build a standalone that responds to joystick input.  Nothing 
> requiring huge amounts of data or processing, just detection of joystick 
> position -> onscreen response scaling or moving an image.
>
> I can understand the basic principles of HID, but can't get to grips with 
> where the data goes in either Mac or Windows, and what would be involved in 
> capturing it in Rev.  I have found some developer articles which address 
> this, but they relate to other languages (VB & RB, I think).


Does the joystick produce keyDown/Up or rawKeyDown/Up messages? If so,
you could map out the numbers that each motion triggers and have your
app react accordingly.
There is a utility on my web site that detects keystrokes and displays
the various codes for them.
<http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/KeyCoder.rev>

Cheers,
Sarah
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