QJoysticks - A simple way to use joysticks with your project

[alex_spataru]

Hello,

Recently, I needed to use joystick input for one of my projects. After I finished, I thought that creating a library to handle joystick input could be beneficial for the Qt community.

The library uses SDL to obtain joystick input from real devices, but it also implements a way to use the computer's keyboard as a joystick, with no additional code or hacks.

As a side note, the QMake config files allow you to use this library with no additional fiddling under OS X and Windows. Under Linux, you may need to install libsdl2-dev in order to be able to compile and link the library.

Finally, you are welcome to try it and (if you want) contribute to the project.

Project repository: https://github.com/alex-spataru/QJoysticks

Regards,
--Alex Spataru

[SGaist]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your work !

Since you are working on game related inputs, you might also be interested by the qtgamepad module.

[Wissam Kafa]

hi @alex_spataru , you have done a great job, i'm interested in integrating your project to my qt projects, i need to read position and other data from a joystick and display them in my qt gui, but i didn't know how to do that using your code, could youd please guide me though this process.
thanx

[Lachrymology]

Hi Alex, the new QGamePad introduced in Qt5.7 up to Qt5.10 isn't detecting the most common XBox 360 Controller (Win7 to Win10). I stumbled over SDL which seems to have a working interface for controllers and then Google showed me your post. QJoysticks is working prefectly!

Thank you very much for your invested time - it's golden.

Mike

PS: I only needed to add

#undef main //before int main() to avoid interferences with SDL and Qt