Mouse / joystick support ?

[Farkad]

Will cxbx have mouse / joystick support ?



Great job on the cxbx anyways.

[TerrorShocked]

It already has Joystick support... I was using my PSX controller on it the other day.... Haven't tried it with mouse though....

[ametller]

I have a little problem with my PSX controller and CXBX. (I have the PSJOY converter)
When I try to configure one key, it automatically maps to an axis of one of the joysticks, and I can't assign another button. How could I solve this???

[LuZi]

i have the same problem with my joypad (logitech wingman cordless gamepad) but i couldn't solve it yet too. maybe caustik knows the answer to solve this problem???

[DC_daNMan]

And the mouse works aswell, in fact it should already be configured...

[caustik]

i think the problem is related to the joystick deadzone being smaller than cxbx's minimum theshold for detecting movement. this can be fixed by throwing in a configurable threshold or something. I will get around to this sometime.

caustik

[Farkad]

So you're saying that I could just load up Halo(in due time), and use the mouse to look around and shoot, like God intended ?

[DC_daNMan]

not really, thats not how the mouse on cxbx works. When you look up in halo, you move the stick up until you get there, whereas, with the PC mouse a diffrent area on the mousepad is a diffrent bit of the screen. So every time you'd want to look up, you'd need to move the mouse back to center (but I think someone could overcome that...)

[caustik]

once retail games start running (playable), I will make many improvements and new options for user input. There could easily be a mouse mapping mode that works well for FPS games.

incidentally...

unfortunately, i am not going to be working on Cxbx full time for a while. hopefully when i finish setting up my room at home i can put some late night hours into it..