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I've got a little challenge for any of you who are willing to help out...
Do you think you could code a small, simplistic, low resource program that whilst running would translate DirectInput commands (Button0, Button1, Button2 etc. being depressed, or the X,Y,Z,rZ,U,V axis moving) to mouse movement / clicks, or keyboard keys that you'd specified insome sort of configuration window?
What I'm asking for is essentially a keymapper / programmable function that you find in Gamepad software from companies like gravis (Xperience). The only problem is that software / driver only works for their pads / pad. I need a program that would allow any joystick / gamepad / steering wheel etc. to emulate keyboard keys, mouse clicks and mouse movement. Specifically capable of having any function, assigned to any button.
Why do I want something like this? Well, I own a Gravis Xterminator gamepad, and all of the functions above I mentioned are available via the Gravis Xperience software. It'll let me assign keys, multiple key presses, mouse clicks, and mouse movement to the various sticks and buttons on the pad. But as stated above, it only works for several gravis pads, and isn't universal.
I have a couple of playstation dual analog (not shock) pads, that I have hooked upto my computer via a special adaptor, and they use a driver called DirectPad Pro to essentially make them your standard DirectInput using gamepads. Problem is they aren't programmable, so if I want to use them with older games, or ones that don't allow you to configure game controls to DirectInput buttons I'm stuffed.
The pads have 22 buttons, and 6 axis (horiz/vertical on d-pad, left stick, and right stick) so the program would have to allow you to program all those buttons, there may be control devices that have more buttons and axis than that - but to my knowledge there aren't; so in theory it would allow every button on any pad to be remapped to a keyboard / mouse function.
Obviously the program is going to be useful to a lot of people, so I imagine if you were then to produce a fancy, professional edition with a nice interface (heck, I'll even design one for you if you want to make a go of it, graphics is my department ;) ), you could probably even sell it and make yourself a tidy profit for your effort. You could approach a company / retailler with the idea, and I'm sure they'd help produce fancy pressed CDs, in exchange for sticking their name on it too. Could potentially be a nice earner.
Anyone want to try?
Do you think you could code a small, simplistic, low resource program that whilst running would translate DirectInput commands (Button0, Button1, Button2 etc. being depressed, or the X,Y,Z,rZ,U,V axis moving) to mouse movement / clicks, or keyboard keys that you'd specified insome sort of configuration window?
What I'm asking for is essentially a keymapper / programmable function that you find in Gamepad software from companies like gravis (Xperience). The only problem is that software / driver only works for their pads / pad. I need a program that would allow any joystick / gamepad / steering wheel etc. to emulate keyboard keys, mouse clicks and mouse movement. Specifically capable of having any function, assigned to any button.
Why do I want something like this? Well, I own a Gravis Xterminator gamepad, and all of the functions above I mentioned are available via the Gravis Xperience software. It'll let me assign keys, multiple key presses, mouse clicks, and mouse movement to the various sticks and buttons on the pad. But as stated above, it only works for several gravis pads, and isn't universal.
I have a couple of playstation dual analog (not shock) pads, that I have hooked upto my computer via a special adaptor, and they use a driver called DirectPad Pro to essentially make them your standard DirectInput using gamepads. Problem is they aren't programmable, so if I want to use them with older games, or ones that don't allow you to configure game controls to DirectInput buttons I'm stuffed.
The pads have 22 buttons, and 6 axis (horiz/vertical on d-pad, left stick, and right stick) so the program would have to allow you to program all those buttons, there may be control devices that have more buttons and axis than that - but to my knowledge there aren't; so in theory it would allow every button on any pad to be remapped to a keyboard / mouse function.
Obviously the program is going to be useful to a lot of people, so I imagine if you were then to produce a fancy, professional edition with a nice interface (heck, I'll even design one for you if you want to make a go of it, graphics is my department ;) ), you could probably even sell it and make yourself a tidy profit for your effort. You could approach a company / retailler with the idea, and I'm sure they'd help produce fancy pressed CDs, in exchange for sticking their name on it too. Could potentially be a nice earner.
Anyone want to try?
Sorry, a quick ammendment to that, the pads actually have 12 buttons (including the two analog sticks which can be depressed), and 6 axis (U & V for the d-pad, X & Y for the left stick, Z & rZ for the right). But the DPad Pro driver supports upto 22 buttons (1-22, some drivers actually start at 0 instead of 1), so those would effectively have to be configurable if any input device that uses DirectInput was to be usable with the program.
I've got a little challenge for any of you who are willing to help out...
Do you think you could code a small, simplistic, low resource program that whilst running would translate DirectInput commands (Button0, Button1, Button2 etc. being depressed, or the X,Y,Z,rZ,U,V axis moving) to mouse movement / clicks, or keyboard keys that you'd specified insome sort of configuration window?
What I'm asking for is essentially a keymapper / programmable function that you find in Gamepad software from companies like gravis (Xperience). The only problem is that software / driver only works for their pads / pad. I need a program that would allow any joystick / gamepad / steering wheel etc. to emulate keyboard keys, mouse clicks and mouse movement. Specifically capable of having any function, assigned to any button.
Why do I want something like this? Well, I own a Gravis Xterminator gamepad, and all of the functions above I mentioned are available via the Gravis Xperience software. It'll let me assign keys, multiple key presses, mouse clicks, and mouse movement to the various sticks and buttons on the pad. But as stated above, it only works for several gravis pads, and isn't universal.
I have a couple of playstation dual analog (not shock) pads, that I have hooked upto my computer via a special adaptor, and they use a driver called DirectPad Pro to essentially make them your standard DirectInput using gamepads. Problem is they aren't programmable, so if I want to use them with older games, or ones that don't allow you to configure game controls to DirectInput buttons I'm stuffed.
The pads have 22 buttons, and 6 axis (horiz/vertical on d-pad, left stick, and right stick) so the program would have to allow you to program all those buttons, there may be control devices that have more buttons and axis than that - but to my knowledge there aren't; so in theory it would allow every button on any pad to be remapped to a keyboard / mouse function.
Obviously the program is going to be useful to a lot of people, so I imagine if you were then to produce a fancy, professional edition with a nice interface (heck, I'll even design one for you if you want to make a go of it, graphics is my department ;) ), you could probably even sell it and make yourself a tidy profit for your effort. You could approach a company / retailler with the idea, and I'm sure they'd help produce fancy pressed CDs, in exchange for sticking their name on it too. Could potentially be a nice earner.
Anyone want to try?
Do you think you could code a small, simplistic, low resource program that whilst running would translate DirectInput commands (Button0, Button1, Button2 etc. being depressed, or the X,Y,Z,rZ,U,V axis moving) to mouse movement / clicks, or keyboard keys that you'd specified insome sort of configuration window?
What I'm asking for is essentially a keymapper / programmable function that you find in Gamepad software from companies like gravis (Xperience). The only problem is that software / driver only works for their pads / pad. I need a program that would allow any joystick / gamepad / steering wheel etc. to emulate keyboard keys, mouse clicks and mouse movement. Specifically capable of having any function, assigned to any button.
Why do I want something like this? Well, I own a Gravis Xterminator gamepad, and all of the functions above I mentioned are available via the Gravis Xperience software. It'll let me assign keys, multiple key presses, mouse clicks, and mouse movement to the various sticks and buttons on the pad. But as stated above, it only works for several gravis pads, and isn't universal.
I have a couple of playstation dual analog (not shock) pads, that I have hooked upto my computer via a special adaptor, and they use a driver called DirectPad Pro to essentially make them your standard DirectInput using gamepads. Problem is they aren't programmable, so if I want to use them with older games, or ones that don't allow you to configure game controls to DirectInput buttons I'm stuffed.
The pads have 22 buttons, and 6 axis (horiz/vertical on d-pad, left stick, and right stick) so the program would have to allow you to program all those buttons, there may be control devices that have more buttons and axis than that - but to my knowledge there aren't; so in theory it would allow every button on any pad to be remapped to a keyboard / mouse function.
Obviously the program is going to be useful to a lot of people, so I imagine if you were then to produce a fancy, professional edition with a nice interface (heck, I'll even design one for you if you want to make a go of it, graphics is my department ;) ), you could probably even sell it and make yourself a tidy profit for your effort. You could approach a company / retailler with the idea, and I'm sure they'd help produce fancy pressed CDs, in exchange for sticking their name on it too. Could potentially be a nice earner.
Anyone want to try?