xinput implementation

[chourmovs]

hi everyone

I'd like to participate to wine improvement instead of always requesting  
for new features

Maybe i'm wrong but i thaught xinput support lack for new games and its  
implementation is maybe not the hardest thing to do
The fact is that i have lack of knowledge in msdn and c coding, maybe i  
could read interesting documentation on how included wine dll's work
By my side, i'm going to read all i can find on website documentation to  
get familiarized with wine code

Maybe someones could guide me through this "Way of the Cross"

Vincent

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
I looked up the XInput documentation a while ago, and the DLL seemed rather small and simple to me. My quick uneducated guess is that it should be pretty streightforward to wrap it to the standard joystick API.

What I recommend you as a start is to boot Windows, get some Windows development tools and experiment with the XInput API to understand how it works and get some test cases. This may require you to buy an Xbox 360 gamepad, since XInput only talks to this hardware. Once you understand how to use xinput.dll, you'll have a much easier task implementing it for Wine.