i am looking for pointers as to how to test my joystic in pd. pd recognises the joypad using j sarlos patch but dont know how get pd to recognise the button and joystick movements.. i am wanting to maipulate an oscillator using the joystick
ta

hey,
Try to make your hid a subpatch.
Hit, referesh, close then print and look at your pd window it should tell you which device number your joystick operates in. Select that number in the radio boxes (0,1,2,3 etc) and hit start. Should be simple. Although the patch is claimed to be untested, it is very stable for me on osx.
If your x and y outputs have outlets in your subpatch, you should be able to sling it up to an oscillator.
Good luck
kilshaw

hi there
cheers for your advice it has helped me asses how to operate 2 pads now,.. i think... I recently had an installation using sensors to a joypad that i managed to patch just in the nick of time...I have had this working on windows too, which alegedly is'nt tested, but i have sucessfully achieved it, (not bad for a novice i thought).. if you have any other advice on setting up two pads it would be smashing..
thanks again
p-tex

hey that's great.
I'm running hid in pd extended os x. I make a subpatch out of the hid (attaching outlets to buttons and x y parameters). I can therefore have two subpatches in a patch (pd joystick and pd gamepad).The key is to make sure that the two have different device numbers (in my case 0 and 1) and they can both run at the same time. If it would help, let me know and I'll post you my patch!

I'm quite intrigued as to what your doing with your joystick.

Kilshaw

Hi
i have a usb joypad with a thermistor, a solar panel and two light sensitive diodes hard wired to the circuit board below the joysticks, i tested the points with a multi meter soldered the connections. the varience in the light and temperature then control the oscillators. the switches on the joypad by hardwiring aditional switch sensors, these are then assigned as on off switches 1-9 with the on off from the buttons triggering a random between zero and 3600 input containing samples. i also made a homemade wind turbine which when rotating triggered one of these switches with the pitch increasing the faster it turned.
So basically the joypad and laptop are being controlled by the elements...

Next I am looking to do the same to x-box handsets hopefully from an x-box itself. what i would like to achieve is a boot up operating system for the x-box running a similar pd patch used for the previous installation but without the need for a lap top or pc....is this possible......I have some very basic knowledge of using the pure-dyne linux operating system after attending a workshop, as with pd, with the intention to use arduino or similar type board

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated in these areas as i am really still very much a novice.

Cheers for your help
p-tex

That sounds fantastic!
Would love to hear/ see it in action.
I too attended a puredyne workshop (summerschool July in London)- maybe its the same course you went on? I do know that it will run on xbox, and its free to try! Let me know how you get on.
Kilshaw