[Bug 18424] Mac OS X Joystick support doesn't work

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18424

--- Comment #73 from david.dljunk at gmail.com 2013-01-30 05:13:25 CST ---
(In reply to comment #64)
> I have also done next to no high level Mac OS X (or other OS) programming. My
> regular programming consists of working on linkers, dynamic instrumentation
> tools and compiler components.
> 
> But it's really not that hard. For the Mac OS X HID stuff, look at the HID
> Calibrator stuff I mentioned in comment 39, the HID headers
> (/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Headers/hid and .../hidsystem) and
> the existing code in joystick_osx.c. I also found the USB HID documentation
> useful for background information:
> http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_11.pdf
> 
> The Linux DirectInput code is in joystick_linuxinpuc.c, the winmm code in
> joystick_linux.c. The code in both files seemed fairly similar at first sight.
> In fact, at first I had no idea why both were present and while searching for
> their purpose I found a thread on wine-devel where someone proposed merging
> them (but that was deemed to be not that easy because of the differences in
> models between winmm and dinput).
> 
> In any case, by putting linux_joystick.c and linux_joystickinput.c side by
> side, and joystick_osx.c next to that, I don't think it should be that hard to
> create a Mac OS X version for winmm. I don't have any games that require that
> though, and even if I had I currently don't really have time for it either.
> 
> > ...I've also checked a few other (dinput) titles with wine-1.3.23 and whereas
> > they didn't have joystick input before, now they do .. so that's a good win...
> 
> Good!

I'm probably totally off-base since I have even less experience. :) But from my
limited understanding of the code, it would seem to be that joystick_osx and
joystick_linux are the corollaries of each other and that they are both for
dinput. I cannot see why one would be for dinput and the other winmm - however,
joystick_linuxinput seems to talk with effect_linuxinput and implements
force-feedback joysticks for linux. 

Is it possible that the winmm code in the winmm dll itself is working for linux
but not mac for some reason? Or that the mac side is always trying to use
dinput while the linux side can "fall back" on winmm? 

Another interesting test case that I noticed has been Freespace 1 from GOG. If
you start it up, the game launcher recognizes that a joystick is plugged in,
but does not accept commands from that joystick once one is actually playing
the game.

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the
above URL to reply.
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are watching all bug changes.