Hi Alexander (you can call me Antonio ;)),

Thanks.
I will try with an Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad.
Cheers,

Antonio

--- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, "Alexander Lazarevic" <Alexander at L...> 
wrote:
> Hi Barros!
> 
> I can use my usb gamepad in squeak running on windows xp. I guess 
if the
> gamepad works with windows (see ControlPanel GameControllers for 
that)
> it should work in squeak too. But I don't know how well usb support
> works in win98.
> The current JoystickTablet plugin tracks only two axis (XY) and upto
> four buttons. On the squeak side you need to poll the state of the
> joystick. The plugin doesn't create any events.
> 
> Within the scope of a rough survey of input devices I did, it was 
easy
> to modify the windows plugin a little to support more axis (XYZRUV),
> upto 16 buttons and point of view (4/8 way). If you get the windows
> source code from here [1], just have a look at sqWin32Joystick.c in 
[2].
> The functions named win32JoystickDebugXYZ() reveal what is needed to
> enhance the plugin. I used [3] to learn how to use things like
> joyGetPosEx() from the Windows Multimedia SDK. 
> 
> Regards,
> 	Alex
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeak/
> [2] 3.4.4\win32\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin
> [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: squeak-dev-bounces at l...
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at l...] Im Auftrag von
> ajbarrosbr
> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. August 2003 01:11
> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Betreff: Re: [Q]tracking real gamepads on USB port
> 
> Thanks Bert.
> I am running win98.
> Has anyone succeeded (or not) in getting that to work on USB port 
(I 
> do not have a gameport)?
> 
> My best,
> 
> Antonio Barros