Index

Joystick

Class Methods

 new  count

Instance Methods

 id  axes  balls  hats  buttons  axis  ball  hat  button

Events

JoyAxisEvent JoyBallEvent JoyHatEvent JoyButtonUpEvent JoyButtonDownEvent

Joystick

Class Methods

Joystick.new( id )

Creates a new joystick object. id is a number smaller than Joystick.count. This will also start events for this joystick.

Joystick.count

Returns the amount of joysticks attached to the computer.

Instance Methods

Joystick#id

Returns the id of the joystick as it was passed to Joystick.new.

Joystick#axes

Returns the amount of axes the joystick has.

Joystick#balls

Returns the amount of trackballs the joystick has.

Joystick#hats

Returns the amount of hats the joystick has.

Joystick#buttons

Returns the amount of buttons the joystick has.

Joystick#axis( nr )

Returns the state of axis nr, which is between -1 to 1.

Joystick#ball( nr )

Returns the state of ball nr, which is an array of [dx, dy] where dx and dy are between -1 to 1.

Joystick#hat( nr )

Returns the state of hat nr, which is an array of [dx, dy] where dx and dy can be -1, 0 or 1.

Joystick#button( nr )

Returns the boolean state of button nr.

Events

JoyAxisEvent

Contains id which is the joysticknumber, value which is the movement, ranging from -1 to 1 and axis which is the axis index.

JoyBallEvent

Contains id which is the joysticknumber, ball which is a trackball index and rel which is a movement array of [dx, dy].

JoyHatEvent

Contains id which is the joysticknumber, hat which is the hatnumber and a movement array of [dx, dy] called value where dx and dy can be -1, 0 or 1.

JoyButtonUpEvent

Contains id which is the joysticknumber and button which is the button index.

JoyButtonDownEvent

Contains id which is the joysticknumber and button which is the button index.