JoyStick integration in QT

Yousif · wrote on 28 Dec 2010, 21:00

I'm undergraduate student. I'm working on a project. My project is about Game development using QT. But I found that this nice graphic library not have integration for Joystick.
My Question is that how I can use Joystick in QT base Programs? Is there any Class for Joystick? Can anyone send me example code implementation for joystick I QT?

irfan.omair · wrote on 28 Dec 2010, 21:10

Well there is no any class for this in Qt. You may have to use some thirdparty lib as I know "SDL":http://http://plib.sf.net is the one which has this support.

See if this "example":http://www.fredemmott.co.uk/blog/2009/07/23/Accessing joysticks with Qt helps you.

Yousif · wrote on 29 Dec 2010, 14:18

@ Mr.Irfan: Thanks for answer my question. I can not open the link which you have mention above. Can you write again the links for SDL and SDL Example.

irfan.omair · wrote on 29 Dec 2010, 18:16

Ah here it is again "SDL":http://plib.sf.net
http://www.fredemmott.co.uk/blog/2009/07/23/Accessing joysticks with Qt

Yousif · wrote on 29 Dec 2010, 21:21

@ Mr.Irfan:- Finaly I got it. I'll remain in you contact for future Joystick help. Thank for Great Help.

Immii · wrote on 30 Dec 2010, 03:19

The one Other way could think of writing own class which interacts with joystick using joystick driver and QIoDevice, how is joy stick connected with your machine? is that using RS232? then you can get input on IODevice?

Yousif · wrote on 1 Jan 2011, 04:48

@ Mr. Immii :- I think this idea is also good. Can you guide me further on this method? Can anyone give me more details on above topic? I mean tools or examples or other resources which can help to understand QioDevice and Joystick DRIVER? I'll try both of these methods to use joystick in QT and check which method is best for me.

jhowland · wrote on 10 Jan 2011, 15:21

another option--a little lame, but it works.

python has a games module. Use python to access your joystick, and another communication method (I used a UDP socket) to send joy data to your application

zester · wrote on 9 Feb 2011, 00:52

Another option that you might want to consider is using SFML.
http://www.sfml-dev.org/

SFML is a free multimedia C++ API that provides you low and high level access to graphics, input, audio, etc.

Here is a tutorial on how to integrate it into Qt.
http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/graphics-qt.php

And here is the input class.
http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/1.6/classsf_1_1Input.htm