HTML5 Gamepad API

https://github.com/alaingilbert/GamepadJs

by alain_gilbert • 14 years ago

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jeep87c• 14 years ago

Wow fantastic!

alain_gilbert5• 14 years ago

If you have any comments/suggestions/critics/pull request... You're welcome ! :)

powrtoch2• 14 years ago

First idea that comes to mind:

It would be cool if there were an option to let the gamepad act as a mouse. There would be an initialization option, as well as a toggle function, called something like "controlMouse".

When activated, the control stick would be able to move the cursor around, and something intuitive like A=left click B=right click would work for the buttons.

You could call this toggle function from any sort of event listener, including a button press. So there would never be a situation where the user needed to switch back and forth between the mouse and the gamepad while on your page: You could just find some button or button combo not used by your game, make it the "mouse mode" toggle, and the user could switch back and forth seamlessly between "gamepad for game control" and "gamepad as mouse".

alain_gilbert5• 14 years ago

That would be great ! Unfortunately, we cannot control/move the mouse in javascript (as far as I know). But, thanks for the suggestion !

drawkbox2• 14 years ago

If your system broadcast the same events for mouse and mouse handlers like you mentions, you could call them from a virtual mouse like this: http://www.senocular.com/demo/VirtualMouse/VirtualMouse.html from flash.

alain_gilbert5• 14 years ago

hehe, I created a little script that let you control a fake mouse.

https://github.com/alaingilbert/GamepadJs/blob/master/exampl...

You can click on any links/inputs/labels in the page.

It could probably be possible to create a chrome extension that will allows you to browse the whole web with a gamepad ! :D

newobj2• 14 years ago

Related, can someone recommend a "it just works" gamepad (wired better than wireless) for use with OSX? Preferably attainable via Amazon?

alain_gilbert5• 14 years ago

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Dual-Action-USB-Gamepad/dp/B0...

This is my gamepad ! Works perfectly on osx.

newobj2• 14 years ago

Perfect, thanks!

ajacksified• 14 years ago

I can also vouch for this gamepad- I've had one for over five years.

mrpollo• 14 years ago

I've used my Xbox 360 controller with this drivers, http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controll... seem to work pretty good!

drawkbox2• 14 years ago

Another excellent gamepad library that seems to have more support: https://github.com/sgraham/gamepad.js Also a demo: https://github.com/robhawkes/gamepad-demo

austinhallock• 14 years ago

Another option: http://johndavidfive.com/inpoot/

Here's a demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oBf-Rlm5_Y

HTML5 Gamepad API

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