CONTEST: Xbox Chatpad Driver Challenge

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Originally Posted by GAFBlizzard

I have made note of your suggestions, and most of them should be possible, so we'll see. :) What do you mean by this, though? You want a button on the chatpad itself to communicate with joy2key?

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Well, I thought that after getting the keyboard working, that the simplest way to get the rest of the buttons to do what you want(mouse, arrow keys volume up/volume down, the kind of things that the HTPC crowd would appreciate) would be to integrate joy2key into the program.

Then, as joy2key activates on and off via a chosen button, and we do like to use our xbox controller for games once in a blue moon, the messenger button, which I assumed was the current button, would be used to turn on the whole set of new controls, vs. just a mouse.

I am going to go through your source in a day or two, would love to see how you did this, unfortunately, C# helps me nothing in C++, so I can't really be of help with code.

joy2key is licensed under the GPL, just in case you were wondering. Anyway, thank you for listening to my suggestions. Now to go see what your code looks like! (Programming is fun at times, times being anytime other than when a lecturer is breathing down your neck, telling you that you have lost half your marks because, while it is coded fine, your output format is not what he likes :P)

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Originally Posted by dsp

First off the driver works great on my 64 bit windows 7 comp and the on-the-fly mouse emulation was a great idea so kudos to gafblizzard for all his hard work. I could use a little help with the config file though. I'm trying to assign the spacebar key with the green modifier to bring up the task manager, but i can't get the control program to start after assigning any button to perform either SPECIAL_ACTION_LEFT_CTRL + SPECIAL_ACTION_LEFT_ALT + KEYBOARD_KEY_DELETE or KEYBOARD_LEFT_ALT + KEYBOARD_LEFT_CONTROL + KEYBOARD_KEY_DELETE. Is there any way I can get this to work?

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You cannot currently combine multiple keys, but you can combine modifiers. Try something like KEYBOARD_KEY_ESCAPE + KEYBOARD_LEFT_SHIFT + KEYBOARD_LEFT_CONTROL to generate Ctrl-Shift-Escape. I didn't double-check the strings, but something similar to that should work (and you can compare with README.TXT to make sure the strings are valid).

Also, if you run the control utility from an administrator command prompt (right click command prompt icon, run as administrator), it should print out some sort of error if there's a problem with the config file. It may not be super helpful, but it might at least give you a clue. :)

How does your drivers know when to use the mouse function and when to turn it off (when inside games)?

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Originally Posted by revel911

How does your drivers know when to use the mouse function and when to turn it off (when inside games)?

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If I recall correctly:

The driver keeps track of whether the mouse function is enabled. When you start the control utility, it is always turned off by default, and then it just toggles whenever the toggle action is triggered (for instance, by the "people" button).

I am gonna pick up a messenger and a windows corded controller tomorrow.

DC Online just came out and this would be perfect.

Well, I just looked at Best Buy and Walmart ..... they don't carry the Wired Windows Version (at least not anymore.) If I read this correct, the 360 version does not work, right?

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Originally Posted by revel911

Well, I just looked at Best Buy and Walmart ..... they don't carry the Wired Windows Version (at least not anymore.) If I read this correct, the 360 version does not work, right?

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I was almost positive I bought my wired controller at a Wal-mart. Worst comes to worst (in the US at least) you should be able to find a used or new one in a GameStop. You might even get a cheaper price used. The wired 360 version SHOULD work though of course I can't guarantee it. You might need to use one of my newer test executables, but that should be all.

I can pretty well guarantee that the "for windows" labelled controller is the Xbox version with a higher price tag. Microsoft does still want to kill PC gaming, so that the 360 wont have the competition from the PC camp.

the 360 wired controller works. i'm using it right now.

had an error everything still works fine tho is it anything i should worry about?


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Chatpad control utility version 0.1a started.
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Please wait...

Control utility started.
Opening chatpad filter driver.
Successfully opened chatpad filter driver.
Successfully connected to XBox 360 controller.
Opening connection to virtual keyboard device.
Successfully opened connection to virtual keyboard device.
Successfully connected to the virtual keyboard device.
Opening connection to virtual mouse device.
Successfully opened connection to virtual mouse device.
Successfully connected to the virtual mouse device.
Microsoft initialization has been finished, so we can init the chatpad now.
IOCTL failed, lastError == 31
IOCTL failed, lastError == 31
IOCTL failed, lastError == 31
Successfully sent IOCTL. Bytes transferred: 2
Control response data received: 0x01 0x00
Successfully sent IOCTL. Bytes transferred: 2
Control response data sent: 0x09 0x00
Successfully sent IOCTL. Bytes transferred: 2
Control response data received: 0x09 0x00
Successfully sent IOCTL. Bytes transferred: 3
Reading thread started for chatpad data.
Reading thread started for controls data.
Worker thread started for mouse data.
Unsupported data length 3 passed to HandleControlsData.
[controls] Length 3: [ 0x08 0x03 0x01 ]
Error, HandleControlsData returned FAILURE.