XBOX 360 Controller returning 0 hats on Mac OSX

[lrd.ars]

Hello, guys.

I'm new on the forum and got in because i don't find a proper answer to my problem.

I'm using LOVE 0.9.0 on a Mac OSX (i've tryed on Windows 7 too) and i'm making a simple PONG game to my son. Until now, everything goes ok, menus, options menu and so on. But, when i started to do the joystick/gamepad support, boom! No joystick working.

Well, somethings worked out. The joystickadded() and josytickremoved() worked. I could get the name, id, and number of axis (LOVE returned 6). But when i try to get the number of hats (getHatCount()) to test the Left Stick and move my paddle, it returns me 0!

Despite the buttons and the rest, the controller became useless because i got no idea on how to check if the Left thumbstick is moving or not.

Somebody already got this kind of problem?

Thanks for any help.

(Sorry by my english. It's no my native language).

[bartbes]

The stick will be made up of two axes, the left stick is typically the first two.

[Jasoco]

The OS X and Windows drivers for the 360 controller return controls differently.

OS X doesn't return hats, instead the D-Pad is 4 separate buttons. (Rather than L, R, U, D and Centered)

The sticks are returned as joysticks as are the L and R triggers.

We used to have a neat library under 0.8.0 that automatically did it for Mac and Windows but now 0.9.0 is completely different and no one seems to want to make an easy to use library that will make it easier to do between OS'.

[slime]

We used to have a neat library under 0.8.0 that automatically did it for Mac and Windows but now 0.9.0 is completely different and no one seems to want to make an easy to use library that will make it easier to do between OS'.

That's because you have a very simple and useful Gamepad API built into 0.9: [wiki]Joystick:isGamepad[/wiki], [wiki]Joystick:isGamepadDown[/wiki], [wiki]Joystick:getGamepadAxis[/wiki], [wiki]love.gamepadpressed[/wiki], etc.

Here's some example usage of the new LÖVE 0.9 functionality with the d-pad of a gamepad. It will work the same on Windows, Mac, and Linux for any popular gamepad without any modification at all.

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function love.load()
    joystick = love.joystick.getJoysticks()[1]
    position = {x = 400, y = 300}
    speed = 300
end

function love.update(dt)
    if not joystick then return end

    if joystick:isGamepadDown("dpleft") then
        position.x = position.x - speed * dt
    elseif joystick:isGamepadDown("dpright") then
        position.x = position.x + speed * dt
    end

    if joystick:isGamepadDown("dpup") then
        position.y = position.y - speed * dt
    elseif joystick:isGamepadDown("dpdown") then
        position.y = position.y + speed * dt
    end
end

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.circle("fill", position.x, position.y, 50)
end

Or the same thing using the left analog stick instead:

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function love.load()
    joystick = love.joystick.getJoysticks()[1]
    position = {x = 400, y = 300}
    speed = 300
end

function love.update(dt)
    if not joystick then return end

    local xval = joystick:getGamepadAxis("leftx")
    if math.abs(xval) > 0.2 then -- a deadzone
        position.x = position.x + speed * xval * dt
    end

    local yval = joystick:getGamepadAxis("lefty")
    if math.abs(yval) > 0.2 then -- a deadzone
        position.y = position.y + speed * yval * dt
    end
end

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.circle("fill", position.x, position.y, 50)
end

[lrd.ars]

Slime, thank you. Thank you VERY MUCH

This kind of information should be on the Wiki, as an example.

Best regards.