gamepad alternative

[charliex]

i noticed i wasn't able to use the analog sticks etc in my gamepad with the existing code, so i started to throw together an alternative, trying to make it so it inserts easily and i haven't played around with the scaling, added a few ways of dead zone and enumeration(mostly from msdn) just call myjoyGetPosEx instead of joyGetPosEx

https://gist.github.com/charlie-x/c4265 ... bec0b3d205

still have to work to do with it, but figured maybe its useful for others wanting to do the same as starting point

Like I added a feature where the left trigger can scale the feed rate. joyGetPosEx doesn't have features for the other sticks so it can't be a basic func replacement.

i wouldn't cut and paste this without some testing.

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// Triggers return 0 - 255
				if (!FirstFeedRateLow && (state.Gamepad.bLeftTrigger) == 0)
				{
					SetDlgItemText(IDC_FeedRateEdit, OrigFeedRate);
					PostMessage(WM_COMMAND, IDC_FeedRateApply);
					FirstFeedRateLow = true;
				}
				else if (state.Gamepad.bLeftTrigger) {

					if (FirstFeedRateLow) {
						// remember what it was.
						GetDlgItemText(IDC_FeedRateEdit, OrigFeedRate);
					}

					FirstFeedRateLow = false;

					CString tRate;

					//convert from 0 - 255 to 0 - 1.0f
					float rate = (1.0f / 255.0f) * float(255 - state.Gamepad.bLeftTrigger);

					// snapping back the trigger will miss the last conversion.

					// slight dead zones
					rate = max(0.1f, rate);

					// when let it it'll reset to original feed rate anyway.
					///if (rate > 0.94f) rate = 1.0f;

					tRate.Format("%0.02f", rate);

					SetDlgItemText(IDC_FeedRateEdit, tRate);
					PostMessage(WM_COMMAND, IDC_FeedRateApply);
				}