ZDoom

Should just be a matter of an options menu that selects which controller you're using. Be aware though that if you're trying to do it in a generic manner that it might be difficult. I picked up a 360 wireless receiver the other day for that code I mentioned, and both XInput and DirectInput provide identical information with all their query functions for each connected controller. Append the controller index to the name for XInput devices should work just well for ZDoom's purposes, but I need to dig far deeper for what I was looking at.

[quote="GooberMan"]Alternately, [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.directx_sdk.reference.xinputenable(v=vs.85).aspx]XInputEnable[/url] might be called on focus/defocus by ZDoom somewhere.[/quote]
Sure enough, in FXInputManager::WndProcHook. Hmm, if all it takes is perhaps a -neveridle parameter and some checks to make sure window focus is never checked or something like that, I might consider throwing this in. There also needs to be restrictions on which controller is interfaced (because at the moment, [i]all[/i] controllers are technically valid), but that shouldn't be too hard to add.

We do it here too.

[url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.directx_sdk.reference.xinputgetstate(v=vs.85).aspx]XInputGetState[/url] must be returning some kind of useful information in this case. Alternately, [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.directx_sdk.reference.xinputenable(v=vs.85).aspx]XInputEnable[/url] might be called on focus/defocus by ZDoom somewhere.

[quote="GooberMan"]XInput should just work if you poll it while the window isn't active.[/quote]
Oddly enough, no. With ZDoom at least, XInput only seems to have updated events only when the window is focused. Obviously there must be a flag for this somewhere because Borderlands already seems to do this.

I was literally looking at this code last night at home for an unrelated thing, and it's gone from my head.

Let me Google...

For Direct Input devices, you have [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.directx_sdk.idirectinputdevice8.idirectinputdevice8.setcooperativelevel(v=vs.85).aspx]SetCooperativeLevel[/url].

XInput should just work if you poll it while the window isn't active.

Do you mind telling me what this flag is? I actually tried this before and literally could not find it.

Uh, it's just a flag in DirectInput/XInput to allow background input.

No idea about non-Windows platforms though.

Thing is, in order to support this sort of thing, I think the entire input handler would need to be rewritten, and I'm not sure anybody feels like doing that.

This is a request that has been requested many, many times. I believe there is a reason why it wasn't listened to yet.

It would be nice if Zdoom was coded to support this. Modern games like Borderlands and even Doomsday Engine support this sort of thing.

[quote="Kaal979"]But .. but its too cool to be untrue![/quote]
Then talk to the people at Microsoft or Apple and complain to them. It's part of the operating system and it won't change.

But .. but its too cool to be untrue!

[quote="Kaal979"]But how about two gamepads - werent this a simple way?[/quote]
No, because ZDoom will not recognize input if it is not the active window. It doesn't matter what device you're controlling it with.

But how about two gamepads - werent this a simple way?

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