Re: [pygame] Problems with reading joystick axis values

[Franky <1.daniel.frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

That helped, thanks a lot for the quick response!


James Paige wrote
> 
> I am pretty sure you need to pump the event queue.
> 
> http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/event.html#pygame.event.pump
> 
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> James Paige
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:41:13PM -0700, Franky wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have been playing around with joysticks in pygame a little bit.
>> This is my most recent testing code:
>> 
>> <code>
>> /import pygame
>> import time
>> 
>> pygame.init()
>> pygame.joystick.init()
>> 
>> joystick=pygame.joystick.Joystick(0)
>> joystick.init()
>> 
>> print(joystick.get_name() +" found")
>> 
>> axis_old=2
>> 
>> while 1:
>>     axis=joystick.get_axis(0)
>>     if axis != axis_old:
>>         print(axis)
>>     axis_old=axis
>>     time.sleep(1)/
>> </code>
>> 
>> It should print the name of the joystick, read the values of axis 0 (i
>> have
>> tried all other axes too) and print it every second.
>> 
>> It prints out this:
>> Logitech Logitech Attack 3 found
>> SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:
>> 0.0
>> SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:
>> SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:
>> SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:
>> SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:
>> 
>> so it finds the correct stick (I also tried it with another one, no
>> problem), but it always reads 0, no matter how I move the axes. It also
>> prints "SDL_JoystickGetAxis value:0:" every time it reads from the
>> joystick,
>> but as far as i know that's a known bug and already fixed in the newest
>> dev
>> releases. But why does it always read 0?
>> 
>> The joysticks I have tested this with are both in working condition. I'm
>> using Ubuntu 12.04.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help in advance!
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
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