From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro JoyStick Problems......
Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:56:04 +0100
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>I got a problem with my joystick and Allegro in general. I currently have 
>Allegro 3.0, plus I keep up with the WIP, so I have the latest from May 98. 
>I have two joysticks, a Flight Pro stick and a PC ProPad 4. The Flight Pro 
>stick is of no problems, although I see that Allegro does not seem to use 
>the HAT switch as I saw from the example program. 

The hat ought to be used, as long as you have selected the FSPro
joystick type. Please check this in the setup program using both Allegro
3.0 and the recent WIP version, and let me know exactly what happens:
does it fail to use a hat input at all, or just not get the right values
from it?

>My problem comes from the  ProPad which is a digital joystick. In the 
>Allegro Joystick example program, I can go anywhere but to the left, 
>even after calibrating it. 

Can the ProPad emulate a normal analogue stick? Many digital joypads
have their own custom interfaces, in which case you will be unable to
use it with Allegro (unless you write a new driver for it, of course).
Assuming that it does have an analogue compatibility mode, and that you
are using this mode, this would indicate some problem in the Allegro
code. I'm afraid that it is pretty much impossible to debug hardware
conflicts remotely, so your only good options are to investigate
yourself and try to find a fix, or to buy me a ProPad for testing :-)


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