Re: dinput: Update existing joystick values after setting the range property

[Austin English]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Bassi, Gurmail
<Gurmail.Bassi(a)mottmac.com> wrote:
> ePSXe polls the joystick immediately after setting the axis range property, and uses the returned values as its 'centered' calibrated values - therefore the existing joystick state values must be remapped to the new range (or else the joystick may not have the full range of motion)
>
> This patch has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS x86-64, and the behaviour confirmed to match Microsoft's DirectInput implementation on Windows XP 32-bit (Microsoft's DirectInput seems to update the existing joystick values to the new range prior to polling even if the joystick hasn't been moved)
>
> ---
>  dlls/dinput/joystick.c |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)

Hi Gurmail,

This appears to have caused a regression, see
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33496

(normally I'd cc you on the bug, but you don't seem to have a bugzilla account).

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-Austin