Using joysticks on game consoles

[Bazmundi]

I have a JXD S7800B and have been trying various combinations to try and read the joysticks.

http://www.jxd.hk/products.asp?id=639&selectclassid=009006

Best I can get is an error that dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent) is undefined for the type PApplet.

Does this mean Processing for Android has not been built to pick up gamepad joysticks?

I have started by simply trying to modify:
jeffThompson / ProcessingTeachingSketches / Android / AdvancedTouchInteractions

(I changed out::

@OverRide
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)

::and replaced with::

@OverRide
public boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent event)

::among other miner tweaks)

Any ideas? Help? A basic code fragment perhaps?

Cheers,
B

[codeanticode]

No, Processing has not been built with plans to support gamepad joysticks. However, PApplet extends Activity, so I'd say that you should be able to adapt some Android example to work in Processing. But this is outside the scope of the Processing core, so I will close this issue. The forum would be a good place to discuss this further.

[Bazmundi]

Short sighted since we are talking about Processing on Android.

I get it if you didn't have the insight to do it.

Nevermind.

There will be things I will do with Processing on Android but I think I will use QPython which has kivy on Android etc. for the joystick work.

[codeanticode]

@Bazmundi We have limited resources to implement and support additional functionality in the android mode at this moment. Pull requests are welcome though, and I will be very happy to discuss and eventually incorporate a PR extending the handling of input events.