Re: [AD] win directx Joystick driver

["Robin Burrows" <rburrows@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am guessing that joysticks are not supported by DirectX3, I seem to
remember something about that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Penquerc'h" <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <conductors@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: [AD] win directx Joystick driver


> > I'm new to this list, and wanted to ask if there's a reason
> > that the joystickdriver for win32 is not DirectX based -
> > and if it's ok if I write a DirectX joystick driver.
>
> i don't know why, but since Allegro has no limit on the number of drivers
> it can use, this would probably be good, as a dx based driver is likely
> to be able to cope with more hardware than others, since i doubt the other
> api is updated as zealously by ms. and if it doesn't make it into allegro,
> you can still quite easily use it for your own productions, or make it
> available as an addon.
> that said, i think it would be a welcome addition (unless the absence of
> it had a tech reason, but i can't think of any).
>
> --
> Lyrian
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