GameEx 3.51 available - Small Intermediate Release

[Tom Speirs]

It's NOT a beta and is stable, but I wont be updating the website. IE It will work as well all other releases do, but is really meant specifically for users experieincing DirectInput errors at startup, and to address that imediatly.

Here is the URL:

http://tomspeirs.com/gameEx/Download/GameExSetup351.exe

Changes:

- Should fix DirectInput failures on startup.

- New setting: Joystick/Gamepad use can be turned on or off.

[Toonces]

It's NOT a beta and is stable, but I wont be updating the website. IE It will work as well all other releases do, but is really meant specifically for users experieincing DirectInput errors at startup, and to address that imediatly.

Here is the URL:

http://tomspeirs.com/gameEx/Download/GameExSetup351.exe

Changes:

- Should fix DirectInput failures on startup.

- New setting: Joystick/Gamepad use can be turned on or off.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tom, I might be premature because you are probably already heading that way with this but in addition to being able to turn the joystick/gamepad on/off, is it possible for you to read the controls available from the gamepads in the system and have a dropdown box populate with the selection of which gamepad GameEx will use for itself? That is not to say it will turn off keyboard (joystick) by selecting one, it would just use the selected control. In my case, with the GP-Wiz49 (and also Ultimarc's new APAC), the joysticks appear to windows as gamepads. However, I also use a JPAC for all buttons and monitor interface so I end up with a "Hybrid" setup that uses both. Most things is GameEx work fine with this until I get fancy and start adding my other crap back in like SNES & N64 controllers. If I could select which controller GameEx uses, it shouldn't matter what order they appear to the system as. So the default would be for gamepad #1 but you could override it and select the desired gamepad by name (GP-Wiz49-1 in my case).

I hope that makes sense, please let me know if I need to clarify what I wrote.

Thanks Again!

Toonces

[Tom Speirs]

Tom, I might be premature because you are probably already heading that way with this but in addition to being able to turn the joystick/gamepad on/off, is it possible for you to read the controls available from the gamepads in the system and have a dropdown box populate with the selection of which gamepad GameEx will use for itself? That is not to say it will turn off keyboard (joystick) by selecting one, it would just use the selected control. In my case, with the GP-Wiz49 (and also Ultimarc's new APAC), the joysticks appear to windows as gamepads. However, I also use a JPAC for all buttons and monitor interface so I end up with a "Hybrid" setup that uses both. Most things is GameEx work fine with this until I get fancy and start adding my other crap back in like SNES & N64 controllers. If I could select which controller GameEx uses, it shouldn't matter what order they appear to the system as. So the default would be for gamepad #1 but you could override it and select the desired gamepad by name (GP-Wiz49-1 in my case).

I hope that makes sense, please let me know if I need to clarify what I wrote.

Thanks Again!

Toonces

Hi, I did already look at the possiblity, but I think you were wight in the first place that its more a windows issue. What I mean is GamePads pretty much seem to be reported by Windows with the same name. I mean I dont see that there is a way to correctly identifiy a particulare gamepad. I could be wrong on this. In control panel, are your GamePads identified with different games/descriptions?

[Toonces]

Hi, I did already look at the possiblity, but I think you were wight in the first place that its more a windows issue. What I mean is GamePads pretty much seem to be reported by Windows with the same name. I mean I dont see that there is a way to correctly identifiy a particulare gamepad. I could be wrong on this. In control panel, are your GamePads identified with different games/descriptions?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, they do have different names. There may be some overlap though. My GP-Wiz49's show up as GPWiz49-1 and -2 because the maker has that as an option. The keyboard shows up as generic game controller device, the SuperJoypad shows up as SuperJoypad and so does the N64 controller. I think it must be based on the controller chip used by the manufacturers on how they show up in the list. Perhaps the best way might be to just offer a dropdown that shows the names and lets you pick?? Then GameEx could just use the device number internally based on which one was picked. I did find out that when I have everything plugged in that it all stays the same as far as which order in the list. It seems to go by which order they were originally plugged in.

I'm not really sure the best way to approach this one other than what I have above.