[PD] joysticks with hid

[David Merrill]

hello all -

Christian Klippel wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Am Sonntag 29 Januar 2006 07:20 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>
> [...snip...]
>
>   
>> Call it a gamepad, call it a joystick, or call it a "MISC".  In any
>> case, they should have used one button type consistently... I forgot to
>> mention, these button types that I mentioned are actually the Linux
>> interpretation of the USB HID spec, mostly its much better.  I wonder
>> what the actual "proper" USB HID values are for all the buttons...
>>
>>     
>
> skimming through the hid usage tables 
> ( http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_12.pdf ) i see that there 
> are no MISC types anyway, only a reserverd range at the end of most usage 
> tables.
>
> this is generally the problem with hid names/usages: they thought of a lot of 
> things, but it can never be complete since there are too many different 
> (new?) devices.
>
> if you look at the usage tables, what would you assign to these "hidden 
> buttons" in david's device? i can see nothing that could fit....
>   
I suspect that they gave it a different type in order to minimize the 
chance that it would trigger some actual game/application behavior - 
unless the software developer writing for it *really* knew that they 
wanted to use that "hidden button" functionality.
cheers,
-David
> greets,
>
> chris
>
>
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