Re: [pygame] [Pygame] Joystick Inputs

[Lee Buckingham <lee.buckingham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,

For buttons I use this:

if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN:
    if event.button == "whatever...":
        etc....

if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONUP:
    and so on...


For analog control and d-pads you have to check for axis position each time through the game loop.  I do it all at once before the player objects update themselves

Like this:

horizontal_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(0)
vertical_axis = self.joysticks[player_number].get_axis(1)

Then change the x and y speed for the player with "player_number" to whatever the axis positions are (times a constant, if necessary).  Of course, the player_number has to correspond to the joystick collection indices pretty well for this to work.  You can eliminate that part of it by replacing "player_number" with "0" and just make sure to check that the joystick count is >0 before you call .get_axis

Hope this helps a little!

-Lee-

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Andrew Godfroy <killerrin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alright, I just checked over my question and I noticed I wasn’t exactly clear what I was looking for...

What I am asking is how do I work the event handler for checking joystick commands such as if the Left Thumbstick-[0] or [1]- moves, or if the A button-[0]- is pressed

Does anyone know how that works?