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On 2010-08-18, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-08-18, at 7:01 PM, Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Another good thing is that this would support platforms without hotplug
> > notifications. You could call al_reinstall_joystick() when the user
> > enters the "Controls" section of your game's menu, which could be more
> > efficient than al_uninstall_joystick + al_install_joystick.
>
> That's actually how I implemented it on Windows anyway. Is there a
> hotplug notification I missed in the reference? It doesn't seem too
> ineffiecient to enumerate the pads once a second in any case, but
> perhaps there could be an option. Maybe a flag to al_install_joystick?
I just assumed there was something on Windows :) Well, I found
references to connect/disconnect events for the XInput API but not
DirectInput.
Peter