Joystick animator (pilot mouse and keyboard with gamepad)

[Le Soldat Inconnu]

Hi,

Just to present my last software : Joystick animator.

This software allows to pilot mouse and keyboard with your gamepad.

It's to can play game with gamepad, even if the game don't support gamepad.



it's here :
http://www.lsi-dev.com/index.php?mod=do ... rid&id=144

Program is translate in french and english
if you don't want install, you can open installation with winrar and run "Joystick Animateur.exe"
Else, I do myself installer and it's leave nothing after uninstall program. (no file, and no registrykey (because I don't use))

I some people can test it thanks

[SFSxOI]

Nice! Thank You

Is there a certain gamepad this uses, or will any gamepad work?

Will you also be releasing source code for this?

The company I work for donates time/computers/software for a computer summer camp for under privilaged kids in the summer when school is out. Some of them are handicapped. I'd like to be able to see if it can be modified for some special control pads we'd like to try and use for the handicapped kids. We have a bunch of these things donated, made by a company called Visitronics which is no longer in business, and we don't have control software for them. As your progam is right now it doesn't work with the pads but i'd like to give it a go and see if I can get these special pads up and in use and the source code would probably (possibly) help a bunch.

Thank You

[Le Soldat Inconnu]

normally, with all gamepad. that why i ask if people can test it, to be sure.

I use library JoyStickEx to get joystick value.
and after sendinput_() to simulate keyword and mouse, see here for directx compatibility :
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 13&t=42331

after, it's nothing special, just gui to link all together.
I don't give full code (it's will don't because of personal library) but if you need help, i can do example.

[SFSxOI]

OK, well these are not really game pads. They are lap pads they can place in their lap with a big button to control the mouse. Some of the kids are not able to control the mouse because their hands are permanately clinched into a fist due to their handicap. The big button on the pad enables them to just put their fist in the pad center and then apply pressure one way or another that controls the mouse movement. The keyboard control we have something for already and unfortunately it does not do the mouse, and since we rely mostly on donated stuff along with the stuff the company supplies, and there really is not a budget for this, just wanted to save some money by using the pads that were already donated. I hate to trash them, they are brand new still in the original package, unfortunately this stupid company did not package the software with them as from what i understand it came in a second package which was not with these.

Thanks anyway for considering my question. Will get the company to shell out the $8000.00 bucks to buy new controllers and software from a company that specializes in things like this for the handicap.

[Le Soldat Inconnu]

May be it's stupid idea but, with joystick (like for plane game, with big analog pad to move plane), you can use it to control mouse. I don't know all about this kind of problem, but it's can be a cheap solution.
After, it's possible to move mouse with keyboard.

[Perkin]

@SFSxOI
Depending on how your control pad is registered in windows, you may be able to use
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Sys ... dder.shtml
(This is an older version, as the newer version is not free)

[Le Soldat Inconnu]

I do my program because Xpadder don't work with DirectX (version i try)