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[3DModelerMan]

How can I get cross platform joystick force feedback without relying on anything like directinput or OIS? I'm trying to help out the developers of the engine I'm using, and I need some suggestions on FF. I googled but I couldn't find any results.
Thanks:lol: .

[KPBeast]

If I recall correctly, OIS is cross-platform is it not? Even if an API is cross-platform it probably uses DirectInput for joystick force-feedback in the implementation, and another programming interface for Linux, etc. Kind of like DX is used on Windows, and OGL on other platforms, when you get down to the implementation.

So if anything, I would recommend you stick with OIS.

[3DModelerMan]

The devs of my engine don't want to rely on Direct input. Is there some Direct input source code that you know of I could browse through?.

[Reedbeta]

DirectInput along with the rest of the DirectX libraries is closed source.

Why do the devs care whether the library uses DirectInput in Windows, as long as it works on all the platforms they're interested in?

[KPBeast]

Yup, as ReedBeta said, they shouldn't really care. At any rate, is there really any other way to do it on Windows other than assembly?

[Reedbeta]

There is also the joystick interface in winmm.lib, described here.

[TheNut]

"You'd have to write your own driver for every model of joystick out there."
Pfft, we're game programmers! We can do that in our sleep :whistle:

Personally, I would worry less about finding some cross platform solution and instead work on those rumble profiles. They are cumbersome to write for DirectInput and I'm certain every other library is the same (less perhaps ones with helper methods).