Xinput / DirectInput xbox360 controller support

[Alexandre Julliard]

Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm wondering how to proceed with XInput. My main issue is the
> 'joystick access part'. Would it be fine to directly access the
> controller from Xinput (so we would need multiple hardware backends
> later on). Code size won't be a problem though since XInput doesn't
> support much functionality at all (the current mostly working version
> is less than 500 lines of code; half of that is for the Linux
> backend). One small issue is though that DirectInput and XInput might
> have to cooperate since typically games use DirectInput to enumerate
> all joysticks, see for instance

That sort of thing should really go through X11.

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Alexandre Julliard
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