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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <dmitry@gandalf.atm.fh-luebeck.de>
Subject: Re: Joystick or gamepad package?
Date: 1999/08/11
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Josh Highley wrote:

> Does anyone know of an Ada package for using a joystick or gamepad?
>
> I haven't done much Win32 programming and I wasn't able to get the win32
> services working.  A short code snipet using the joystick procedures in
> "win32.mmsystem.ads" would probably get me going.  At this point, all I need
> to know is how to read the position of the stick -- not the buttons.

You can use joyGetPos, which fills JOYINFO structure in.

I do not know which Win32 bindings you use, but it should be no problem
to call this function directly from winmm.lib.

Regards,
Dmitry