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Re: how to deal with varied input devices?

On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 01:36 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

I've been dabbling with the HID Manager lately. The APIs are simple
enough, but I'm a bit stumped as to how to put them to practical use. [...]
Seems like every controller-savvy game must deal with these issues (ah,
for the days of InputSprocket...). Any tips for a newbie?

It would be great if someone solved this problem and donated the code to SDL (www.libsdl.org). SDL already has some level of support for keyboard, mouse, and joysticks, but I don't see any support for d-pads on OS X.

This might work for you: HID Wizard from Z Sculpt.

It is an InputSprocket clone for OS X which also works (using InputSprocket itself) on OS 9. It is donation-ware, meaning that it asks the end user for a donation, so it probably isn't good for all projects. I thought I read that someone else was working on an InputSprocket for Cocoa, but I can't find the reference now.

A MacWorld article about HID Wizard:

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/29.hidwizard.php

The software is usually at:

http://www.zsculpt.com/website/appsutils/hidwizard/hidwizard.html

However, the Z Sculpt web site appears to be temporarily down as they move to a new hosting service.

Cheers,
James
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