[tutorial] joysticks/joypads (finally)

[BigBear]

Tony @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:28 pm wrote:

You have an array that represents the input state, very similar to the one you would have from Input.KeyDown. If you want a particular button, just check the corresponding index directly.

(that is, you don't normally loop over every keyboard key, looking if letter 'Q' was pressed)

So could write a program using Input.KeyDown then use something like this

Turing:

Input.KeyDown (key) for i : 1 .. 31     if joy (1).button (i) then         if i = 1 then             key = ('1')         elsif i = 2 then             key = ('2')         elsif i = 3 then             key = ('3')         elsif i = 4 then             key = ('4')         elsif i = 5 then             key = ('5')         end if     end if end for

[Tony]

No, that doesn't even make sense. If you are looking for a specific button #5

code:

if joy (1).button (5) then    put "win" end

[BigBear]

OK but with this

Turing:

if joy (2).button (1) then         keys := ('1')     elsif joy (2).button (2) then         keys := ('2')     elsif joy (2).button (3) then         keys := ('3')     elsif joy (2).button (4) then         keys := ('4')     elsif joy (2).button (5) then         keys := ('5')     end if

I am getting

Assigned value is the wrong type

[Nick]

BigBear @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:44 pm wrote:

What is with the 3.. 3 +31

that's for Text.Locate

BigBear wrote:

I am getting

Assigned value is the wrong type

that's because you're mixing keys with button, look at Tony's post a second time

[BigBear]

I wanted to know if you could easily use joystick buttons to seem like keys were being pressed.

I wanted to do this so I could take this Guitar Hero Game found here

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=15739&highlight=guitar+hero

And just add the joystick information and that check for buttons to be keys.

But I guess I will have make one that I (1) understand and (2) uses joystick buttons.

[The_Bean]

You should be able to do it the way you want to, you're just mixing up what the 'keys' variable is.

The variable keys is defined as an array char of boolean
If you break it up, you get :an array with an element for every char of the keyboard as a boolean value
So if you push a key down, then that char in the array will become true.
What you need to do is make the program think that the keyboard key is pushed down when it's actually on the controller.
to change the boolean value of an individual char use:

Turing:

keys(chr(46)):=true %for the number 1 on the keyboard