DsPad plugin !!!

[Squall-Leonhart]

i booted into safe mode and you know what, control worked to an extent.

BUT, i think i know why now.

THE PLUGIN DOES NOT POLL THE CONTROLLER FAST ENOUGH TO DETECT BUTTON PRESSES. weapon charging didn't work at all in Megaman ZX, which means the button wasn't been detected as held.

[RockmanForte]

I guess he will need to release the next version again.... >.>

[Squall-Leonhart]

lol, done some further testing

Controls
Xbox S-type using XBCD 0.2.6
Gravis Tiltpad (damned if i know the driver)

Win9x compatibility - X works, Y doesn't
WinNT (2k compatibility and XP) - Y works, X Doesn't.
safe mode - all buttons work, but polling is way to slow.

[mudlord]

Found a bug:

* SDL is meant to be loaded in the main process/thread (DllMain), not when loading plugin information.

As for the polling issues, will look into that...

[Squall-Leonhart]

btw, the second one you sent me,. the small one, wouldn't work at all

[mudlord]

Yah, I know :P

You told me yesterday

[Squall-Leonhart]

lol i did?

i told you the first one acted like al buttons were pressed at once...

lol maybe i offline messaged it :\

just for kicks i booted up Dosbox and plays tyrian with my controller :P using the buttons that just won't work in ideas

[Lino]

NHerve' why do you also read the state of the keyboard? iDeaS fills *value with current status of keyboard. GetKeyboardState(str);

[Squall-Leonhart]

i saw that as well, i was going to mention it to mudlord, its probably why the keyboard controls act up when the plugin is enabled. it also, reads mouse input,. well, middle clicks anyway.

[Lino]

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Lino, I was wondering the same thing

It seems logical to me, if it was for a pure controller plugin, it will use controller only calls. Mixing calls doesn't seem to be nice, and anyway, SDL has capabilities for handling keyboard input anyway, which removes the need to do it manually by using keyboard hooks or whathaveyou in Win32.
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GetKeyboardState(str) it is a standard api, it isnt SDL.

I knew that the SDL had the initialization for every layer, graphics, sound etc etc.

[Squall-Leonhart]

yeah, the problem is, that the emulator already gets the keyboard, and having the plugin also get it, can cause conflicts.

as it is, i would prefer to see the emulator internally support dinput controls, rather then handling it via a plugin. otherwise, drop the internal controls all together and just handle it all via plugin. your bound to come across conflicts using both methods at some time or another.

[Lino]

I havent understood or Im not clear, why DsPad calls GetKeyboardState(str)? I havent tested the plugin, now im very busy, but i have seen the code and i found very strange this call.

[Squall-Leonhart]

i would like to know as well.

Nherve'?

[NHervé]

mudlord : I tried to init SDL in dllmain, the plugin does not init.

[Squall-Leonhart]

you may not be doing it correctly, as we were able to init the plugin fine.

[Lino]

Originally Posted by NHervé

mudlord : I tried to init SDL in dllmain, the plugin does not init.

You can try in SetInfoFunc when the PIS_ENABLEMASK is valid.

[mudlord]

BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID Reserved){
	switch(dwReason){
	case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
		hInst=hInstance;
                OpenSDL();
		LoadConf();
		return TRUE;
	case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
		CloseSDL();
		return TRUE;
	}
	return FALSE;

So, if I'm not mistaken, the plugin won't work for you if SDL is loaded correctly??????

[Squall-Leonhart]

Nherve, why is it that at one point the source specifies i=IDC_EBX but then the next specifies i=IDC_BX

[VisitntX]

Congratulations NHervé, the plugin works perfect

[RockmanForte]

Originally Posted by VisitntX

Congratulations NHervé, the plugin works perfect

Actually, you need to recheck it just to make sure because it works perfect but if you try any buttons like Megaman Star Force that asked to press X button for Save.. No responsive. And you can check anything else... I don't think it's perfectly... yet.