Hello everyone!

First of all, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Ariel and i'm from Argentina. I study composition using electroacoustic methods. We had a subject on max programing and I've recently switched to PD. Unfortunately, I don't own a Mac and work on Windoze. So you can already figure why I'm looking for support, ha.

Well, I'm trying to make an interface from a generic usb joystick to send midi messages; nothing complicated. HOWEVER, [hidin] seems to dislike my joystick and won't recognize buttons nº 1 to 8. It does recognize de arrows, analogs, select, start and the analog buttons.

I downloaded the external [joystick] but, guess what? It recognizes everyhing else BUT not the arrows.

I'm trying to keep the patch as simple as possible, so I'd love to make [hidin] work. Besides, when I choose the joystick from the available HIDs in [hidin], it says it has 44 inputs, but it only recognizes a few (listed above).

As you can see, from my experience with [joystick], all the buttons actually work (I've also tested it on games). So I can't figure out why [hidin] isn't recognizing some of them.

I hope you guys can help me! I'd really appreciate it!

Yours sincerely,

Ariel.

P.S: Please excuse my terrible english.

Ariel,

I had a similar problem, and have put it down to the 'cheap' joystick itself.

That's because I downloaded the free MJoy Joystick to Midi converter software to get around this (http://www.otk.it/mjoy/), and faced exactly the same limitation with that.

Keep well ~ Shankar

Hey Shankar, thanks for replying!

What you're saying is true, but what puzzles me is that all the buttons are received by PD, but by diferent objects! Besides, I tried using programs like Xpadder or Joy to Key and they read the joystick perfectly. So I'm thinking there proably is a way to work around [hidin] that maybe I'm not understanding (since I'm new to PD).

Of course I will try out getting a better controler. But it would be great if I could make this one work, since I'm working with a friend, dis-assembling the joysticks and making powerful controllers (and it would be better if the joysticks are cheap, since we sometimes...screw up)

Anyway, thank you!

Can you not use [hidin] and [joystick] at the same time? I think the human interface objects are pretty much still under development, so I don't think any of them quite cover everything. So if using two different ones will get what you want, then that just may be the way to go.