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Hi There,

I've got a digital/microswitch based joystick I'd like to use with Oolite (Qanba Q4) but I cannot set the Yaw/Roll to the joystick ( I imagine because they're buttons, not axes)

In the Joystick configuraiton menu of Oolite, the joystick is listed correctly as "Stick 1".
I can set all the other buttons in the configuration menu without issue.

Is there a way I can force this in the configuration file?

I've had a look at oolite.plist, and can see some of the button configuration's I've made. However, I can't make heads or tails of the syntax I need to have to get:

Roll - button A/B (matching to left/right on the joystick)
Pitch - button X/Z (matching to up/down on the joystick)

Also, is it possible to have a modifier button that for example, switches one of the axes/buttons between Yaw & Pitch while held down?

Thanks!

...and before anyone says anything, I'm fully aware the correct answer to this question is to purchase a CrotchMaster WingDestroyer 4 Hyper-Pro Turbo joystick...



... or something similar, but it isn't an option at the moment.

Hi bluntdischarge, welcome!

(Sorry, I cannot help you with joystick stuff, but I'm confident that somebody who can will post here soon.)

bluntdischarge wrote:

Wow!

Back in my days a joystick used to look like this:

Another thing, when I assign Left/Right/Up/Down to an arbitrary button they come up as:

stick 1 hat up
stick 1 hat down
stick 1 hat left
stick 1 hat right

bluntdischarge wrote:

Another thing, when I assign Left/Right/Up/Down to an arbitrary button they come up as:

stick 1 hat up
stick 1 hat down
stick 1 hat left
stick 1 hat right

That’s because your “stick” is identified as a direction pad, and dpads and joystick hat switches look the same from inside the computer. If it really conforms to the USB joystick specification, it also has at least two “dummy” analogue axes.

In any case, Oolite itself doesn’t support this kind of configuration. You’ll need external software to map the “stick” to emulated keystrokes.

Ahruman wrote:

bluntdischarge wrote:

Another thing, when I assign Left/Right/Up/Down to an arbitrary button they come up as:

stick 1 hat up
stick 1 hat down
stick 1 hat left
stick 1 hat right

That’s because your “stick” is identified as a direction pad, and dpads and joystick hat switches look the same from inside the computer. If it really conforms to the USB joystick specification, it also has at least two “dummy” analogue axes.

In any case, Oolite itself doesn’t support this kind of configuration. You’ll need external software to map the “stick” to emulated keystrokes.

Thanks for the pointers! After some more fiddling, I've discovered there's a "Home" button that when pushed, toggles the reporting of dummy axes.

bluntdischarge wrote:

You probably mapped the 'w' key to the right food pedal and the 's' key to the left food pedal. And seeing the shape of your left pedal, I assume you had some serious emergency breaks lately.

Nice joystick.

Ahruman wrote:

bluntdischarge wrote:

Another thing, when I assign Left/Right/Up/Down to an arbitrary
In any case, Oolite itself doesn’t support this kind of configuration. You’ll need external software to map the “stick” to emulated keystrokes.

Yep. for Linux, install joy2key using your package manager.