Talk:Joystick position

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Task?

What's the justification for this being a task? There are no implementations at all at present, and if we've got modern hardware connected up we'd have to ask which joystick (the games console round here has two per controller). –Donal Fellows 08:42, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

The task is currently limited to only reading analog joysticks. If the task was changed to only indicating the direction a joystick was moved in it would allow inclusion of digital joysticks. Analog joysticks can also include indicating the direction and the degree to which movement in that direction is indicated.--Demivec 18:51, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

For a digital joystick, just use full extents, so a push up gives crosshair at top centre, a pull down and to the right gives bottom right. Markhobley 20:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Standardization issues

This task has hardware dependencies, and does not seem to reference any relevant standards. So, the task has implicit dependencies on the operating system (and version) as well as possible dependencies on the specific hardware configuration.

So, either the task should be updated to be more specific, or the implementations should specify the supported target architectures (some may already do an adequate job of this?). --Rdm (talk) 16:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)