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Peter Wang wrote:
>
> Tom Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a USB SideWinder GamePad Pro and allegro
> > has always ignored the 9th button, so i took
> > a look at ljoy.c and changed the 'if(num_buttons > 8)...'
> > to 'if(num_buttons > 9)...', and also the line
> > in joy_poll so now I have a working 9th button
> > and want to know if this change would affect
> > other joysticks? (i.e.: gameport joysticks)
>
> Can you check the attached patch? It uses constants from allegro.h
> instead of making up its own. I'm not sure about it as I haven't
> used the joystick API for a long time.
>
It works fine. In fact its better than fine :) The driver for my
joypad reports that it has 10 buttons but allegro only sees 9. :)
(which is correct.)
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Tom Fjellstrom
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