Re: How to interface in ADA with Microsoft joystick?

[tolkamp <f.tolkamp@gmail.com>]

On 5 okt, 19:03, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

I prefer to use joyGetPosEx in an ADA task loop.
On this website http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=Bindings&CID=388
I found the package Win32.Joystick. Is this package usable to add to
my project?

Regards, Fred Tolkamp