Since the haptic subsystem is usually initialized after the joystick subsystem,
the initial calls to HapticMaybeAddDevice() from inside SDL_JoystickInit() will
arrive too early to be handled by the haptic subsystem. We need to add those
haptic devices for those already present joysticks ourselves.
The joystick subsystem has complex precedence logic to deal multiple competing
backends like XInput, RawInput, and WGI. Let it fire the MaybeAdd callbacks
for joystick devices, since it knows which backend will end up managing them.
This resolves a situation where the RawInput joystick backend would take
control of an XInput device but the XInput haptic backend would still create
a haptic device. Since the XInput joystick backend didn't own the underlying
joystick device, we'd end up with an orphaned haptic device that didn't work
with SDL_HapticOpenFromJoystick() on the associated joystick device.
- Do not call IDirectInputDevice8_QueryInterface(device, &IID_IDirectInputDevice8,...) on DIRECTINPUTDEVICE8 device
- Get joystick VendorID and ProductID via IDirectInputDevice8_GetProperty(.., DIPROP_VIDPID, ..) call instead of messing with DIDEVICEINSTANCE.guidProduct
- Normalize HID device interface path to upper case for stable operation of XInput check
- Remove useless RawInput calls in SDL_IsXInputDevice() - just check for "IG_" string in HID device interface path that we already have
There shouldn't be any observable behavior changes.
This works on capability bitfields that can either come from udev or
from ioctls, so it is equally applicable to both udev and non-udev
input device detection.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
meyraud705
I see how the documentation is confusing. I think that the choice of the axis is an implementation detail. The documentation should state the goal of this value, so I propose this wording:
"Use this value to play an effect on the steering wheel axis. This provides
better compatibility across platforms and devices as SDL will guess the
correct axis."
Value could even be renamed 'SDL_HAPTIC_STEERING_AXIS'.
For Linux, sending an effect on the X axis with a Logitech wheel works. Others brands don't have driver for Linux as far as I know.
meyraud705
Added Linux implementation, otherwise you get "Unsupported direction type" error.
Added documentation to explain why one would use SDL_HAPTIC_FIRST_AXIS.
Mathieu Laurendeau
Consider a device supporting effects on multiple axes.
There's currently no way to play effects against a single-axis direction.
A device supporting effects against X and Y may not allow to play effects with a two-axis direction coordinate, even if one of the coordinates is null.
My current (ugly) work around for this is to add a direction type SDL_HAPTIC_X_FORCE to play effects against a X-axis only direction (patch attached).
This issue impacted two GIMX users using the following wheels:
- Leo Bodnar SimSteering force feedback wheel
- Accuforce direct drive wheel
Playing constant/spring/damper effects against a X-axis direction worked well for the first wheel, but not for the second one.
A better strategy seems to play the effects against the first axis reported by the DirectInput enumeration.
This strategy also works with Logitech wheels (at least the DFGT).
It's been more than a year that I have the latest patch (playing effects against the first axis only) in the GIMX software. It's being used by thousands of people, mostly for adapting their FFB wheel to the PS4. I had no report that proves this strategy to be wrong.
Include guards in most changed files were missing, I added them keeping
the same style as other SDL files. In some cases I moved the include
guards around to be the first thing the header has to take advantage of
any possible improvements compiler may have for inclusion guards.
SDL_UDEV_Scan must be called during SDL_SYS_HapticInit to ensure devices
outside of the 0-31 range are added to the list of haptic devices.
Fixes Bugzilla #3923.