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From: Michael Briere <mikey@accessv.com>
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Subject: Re: JOYSTICK FUNCTION
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:33:20 -0400
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That's allright! Thanks again for all your help. I'm starting to get a good feel
for it with your help. As I've said before. I really want to understand everything
that's going on in the program and not just copy chunks of code because I know the
code works. :)

Elliott Lee wrote:

> Michael Briere wrote:
> > Hi Elliott! Thanks for your help! I really like your joystick lib as it does
> > include the diagonal combinations. I also like your suggestion of using
> > printfs to see the math behind this. I am confused though about what you've
> > put in your reply to me and what you have in your padstuff.h header file.
> >
> > In your reply you say that controller 1 uses bits 16 to 31 and controller 2
> > uses bits 0 to 15, yet in your header file when you assign buttons to bits
> > it's the reverse. Am I missing something here? I know I have to do some more
> > reading on bitwise operators to get all of this, so I wouldn't be surprised
> > if I'm the one who's getting it wrong. I've got to take a good look at your
> > padstuff now. Thank you!
>
> Oh...hehehe... I've not been getting much sleep lately due to other
> projects but you're right, I goofed in my example.  Whatever is in the
> padstuff.h is correct---I know this because I use it all the time.  The
> lower 16 bits should be controller 1.  Shift the #defines left 16 and
> you
> got controller 2.  ^_^  (I think I mislabled them because I wrote the
> bits
> in MSB on the left but was thinking "controller 1 then controller 2".)
>
> *yawn*
>
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