Joystick support not properly working

[TheBug]

Hi,
when testing with our JoyWarrior24RC we have found that FMS seems not to work properly with joystick axes beyond the first four. In the calibration window only the first five do show any reaction (three and five do not get input from our device) and axis six is sitting stable at center position no matter what we try to feed to it.

Our device is reporting five axes as X, Y, Z, rX, rY but with the current version of FMS only three are really usable.

Who would be the one to send a unit for testing? My guess is that you probably have not had much chance testing with anything beyond four axes.

[Michael_Moeller]

Hi

the fms should be able to read 6 channels from each of the first two joysticks. The joystick must be correctly installed on Windows, with all axes calibrated to a usefull range. The FMS joystick interface is implemented with the JoyGetPosEx Windows API function and not with the DirectInput. Can you read all axes from another application using JoyGetPosEx?

Michael Möller

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[Michael_Moeller]

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[Eric Brouwer]

Have a look under Control PAnel/Gaming Options. Ensure that the USB device ID is set to 1. FMS can only see the first 6 axis, and if other joysticks are installed on your PC, it might be possible that FMS sees them, instead of your USB device.

I have never come across any other problems when using Joysticks/USB interfaces.

Is the interface your own design? If so, it might be that you use different descriptor tables to define the different axis names when trying to enumerate with the USB bus. Are you defining it correct under Joystick/Simulators/Helicopters sections according to the USB spec?

[TheBug]