On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
On Sunday 20 March 2011 21:46:34 Austin English wrote:
There are some patches still around (would have to look them up) and they work.
<warn reason="clueless"> I think the main problem with implementing xinput.dll isn't xinput itself, it is the lack of a proper joystick infrastructure in wine. Currently dinput.dll reads the /dev/js* devices directly, but preferably joystick input should be done over the X server and winex11.drv. This needs some tricky adjustments, winex11.drv isn't a place where you can just add some hacky code and hope Alexandre doesn't notice. </warn>
Yeah, that was indeed part of the discussion we had last year when this came up. With the direction X11 is taking, I doubt there will ever be proper joystick support in X11. I fear the only way is /dev/evdev (not that portable)... which was what the patches were using.
Roderick