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Code Update: DInput 8

by James Lupiani · in Torque Game Engine · 10/17/2001 (5:07 pm) · 7 replies

I've updated the DInputManager and DInputDevice to use DirectInput 8. It doesn't include any backward compatibility that the previous version had, but at least it works (on my system, anyway). The next hurdle will be to figure out why it doesn't generate events for my joystick.

You can download the updated files from my site. Unzip them in your engine/platformWin32 directory. You'll also have to add dinput8.lib from the DirectX SDK to your library modules.
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Torque Owner Tim Gift
#1
10/17/2001 (7:43 pm)
I thought Rick had already ported that the input code to use DX8?? What changes did you end up making?

Associate James Lupiani
Sickhead Games
#2
10/17/2001 (8:12 pm)
Changes had been made to use DX8 constants, but the DInput code never worked for me in the first place. It was querying the DX5 (or if it didn't exist, DX3) interface, but for one reason or another it wouldn't enumerate anything.
So I went through and removed the run-time linking to the old library (dinput.lib) and switched it to a straight DI8 (dinput8.lib).

Torque Owner Tim Gift
#3
10/17/2001 (9:00 pm)
Ok, thanks for the info, I'll talk it over with Rick when he get's back (he does the input stuff).

Associate James Lupiani
Sickhead Games
#4
10/18/2001 (11:16 pm)
I fixed the problem with polled devices (joystick, for instance) and overwrote my previous zip. Seems to be working great now! =)

Torque Owner Badguy
#5
02/19/2002 (7:39 pm)
umm ..
im just wondering ..
here with the version im using
1_1_1 ..
it still is defaulting to dated dx and not dx8 for input
as soon as I used this upgrade the joystick worked fine
.. shouldnt this logic be allied to the latest code?

Associate James Lupiani
Sickhead Games
#6
02/20/2002 (7:13 pm)
If not I should probably put it up as a code snipit. I'll put it on my ever-growing todo list.

Torque Owner Edward Gardner
#7
03/13/2002 (9:32 am)
Sweet.

Thanks man.

looks like I am finally gonna branch off the head build...