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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How to interface in ADA with Microsoft joystick?
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:32:21 -0700 (PDT), tolkamp wrote:

> What is the next step to interface with the Microsoft Joystick?

Studying the MS documentation and examples on the subject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd757121%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

You can either make the Windows MM system sending messages to a window and
process them in the messages loop (joySetCapture), or just poll the
joystick state from a tight loop in an Ada task (joyGetPosEx). 

P.S. This is not Ada specific, i.e. an off-topic here.

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