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AppGameKit Classic Chat / "Joystick" (Gamepad) Input on Mac

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unlikely
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Posted: 14th Aug 2014 22:11 Edited at: 14th Aug 2014 23:43
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Hi all,

I have been playing around with using my Xbox 360 controller with AppGameKit on my Mac. I have installed a driver for Mac that is working great--I have tested it with a few games.

The controller works great in emulated Windows, but if I run the Mac interpreter and "broadcast" (locally) to that, it doesn't detect any input. It DOES, however, detect when the gamepad is present.

How is the controller implemented in AppGameKit? Is it through DirectX, and therefore not available on Mac? (I doubt this is the issue, as the "joystick" is correctly detected as being present or not, even on Mac.)

I would hate to support gamepads on Windows and not Mac...

Thanks!
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Posted: 15th Aug 2014 22:58 Edited at: 15th Aug 2014 22:59
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Anyone have any experience with this? Any thoughts on why the gamepad might be detected, but no input is received? Paul?
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Posted: 19th Aug 2014 21:24 Edited at: 19th Aug 2014 21:24
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Still can't seem to get this working... Is this a bug, or are these input methods not implemented in AppGameKit for Mac... or?
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Posted: 20th Aug 2014 00:49
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Hi, no idea about this as I don't have a Mac, sorry.

I'm guessing you've tried the GetRawJoystick... and the universal joystick commands. It sounds like a proper bug so it might be worth emailing Paul directly.

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Posted: 20th Aug 2014 01:39
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Hi, thanks 29 games!

I've tried all of the input commands and can't get any response. The only one that is properly returning data is the GetRawJoystickExists(int) command.
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