Friday, January 05, 2018

Re: NEW: games/sdl-jstest

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 06:41:35PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote:
>
> On 01/05/18 17:49, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> > Attached is a port sdl-jstest. sdl-jstest is a simple program to find out how many joysticks are detected by SDL and SDL2. It can list devices detected by SDL1/SDL2 joystick or gamecontroller API. It also has a flag to display events sent by the buttons and axes.
> >
> > The primary purpose is for testing and troubleshooting joystick/gamecontroller devices. Helpful in working on SDL2's gamecontroller API.
> >
>
> This is ok for me, with the caveat that the V variable be merged into
> DISTNAME (since it's only used there). And maybe eliminate the verbosity of
> the license marker comment, GPLv2+ is good enough.
>
> I'm also guessing this needs the SDL2-2.0.7 update? Otherwise, sdl2-jstest
> complains that SDL2 was built without force feedback.
>
> ~Brian
>

This is also OK awolk@

with same caveat regarding SDL2 and for anyone testing I found a quirk.

I have a zalman gaming mouse and for some reason this test app detected
it as 3 gaming pads... preventing the PS4 dual shock pad from being
discovered by this utility when plugged in.

After unplugging the mouse, and plugging the pad in - it's detected correctly
and the test & events mode works as expected.

So, unplug your fancy USB devices before testing a gaming pad/joystick.

Regards,
Adam

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