[PD] joystick button-mashing

[jsarlo at UCSD.Edu]

Which OS are you using? Can you send me an example of your patch? The joystick 
object sends both the button id and state for each button press event to avoid 
any ambiguity (or at least it is supposed to!). So I'm not sure why your patch 
is getting confused, but it might be that you (like any good Pd user) are 
assuming that the rightmost outlet fires before the second-to-the-rightmost 
outlet. The joystick object actually sends the button-id first and then the 
button-state. So what you want to do is use a "trigger" object and an "int" 
object to reverse the event ordering. Something like:


[ joystick ]
       | \
       |  \ 
       | [ t b f ]
       |  /    /
       | /    /
       |/    /
      /|    /
     / |    |
   [ int ]  |
     |     /
     |    /
     |   /
   [ pack ] 
     |
   [ route 1 2 3 4 ]


Here, the first four outlets of the "route" object should be the states of the 
first four buttons.


Hope this helps,
Joe
jsarlo at ucsd.edu



> > poil wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I am using jsarlo's joystick extension on windows which sends  
> >> button-id  number and a binary button-state for the whole pad on its  
> >> last two outlets  respectively. I am currently using it with a pack and  
> >> a route to get my  button presses into pd, however there are some  
> >> problems when multiple  buttons are pressed simultaneously or one  
> >> button is not released before  another is pressed.
> >>
> >> So far I have just been careful when performing but when other people  
> >> play  it they always seem to want to button-mash thus making my patch  
> >> do  terrible and unexpected things!
> >>
> >> -poil-
> 
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