Thread: [Dev-C++] joystick

Hello,

How I can write a program to use my joystick, it use port midi. It have one
vertical and horizontal axis, and 3 buttons.
I thinking something how show in printf() the value of the axis and the
state of the buttons.

Thankyou

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM, frederico schardong
<fre...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How I can write a program to use my joystick, it use port midi. It have one
> vertical and horizontal axis, and 3 buttons.
> I thinking something how show in printf() the value of the axis and the
> state of the buttons.

The SDL Library is your best bet for reliable joystick input, assuming
you wish to avoid lots of DirectX shenanigans.

http://www.libsdl.org/

You should be able to install it using Dev C++'s library installer.

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