[RESOLVED] Stopping stick function

[castcreator1]

In GameEx I control the game selection scroll wheel by moving a joystick up and down. This will control the scroll wheel up or down alphabetically to allow me to move a game to the center for selection. Can the left and right movement of that stick be disabled? 

[Draco1962]

Refer to these threads:

 

 

[castcreator1]

Thank-you

[castcreator1]

Ok I followed the thread  read it and installed 18.64. The cabfriendly option is list we d in the gameex.ini but when you type true it still doesn't show in the gameex setup.

[Draco1962]

8 hours ago, castcreator1 said:

Ok I followed the thread  read it and installed 18.64. The cabfriendly option is list we d in the gameex.ini but when you type true it still doesn't show in the gameex setup.

When you say "still doesn't show in the gameex setup" are you suggesting you are expecting it to show in the Setup Wizard? If so, that's not how it works. The Setup Wizard is just a shell to update the gameex.ini. Everything you may want to edit can be done within a plain text editor, bypassing the the need for the Setup Wizard if you know what each entry represents. 

Enabling it within the gameex.ini only serves to enable the functionality desired . Does it work - no left or right movement - after changing the entry from False to True?

[castcreator1]

Based on what I saw in the thread, yes I expected to see it. Does it work now ? No. 

Left and right motions of the joystick still produce movement inside the gameex front end. 

[Draco1962]

Is the joystick controller standard, DirectInput, or Xinput? 

If you have an Xbox controller that you can plug in to test Xinput, it should work without a problem - no left/right detected. There may still be issues with DirectInput or "keyboard" type controllers (i.e., inputs represent keypresses).

[castcreator1]

Its an ultimarc mag-stik on an Ipac4. Directinput

 

[Draco1962]

@Tom Speirs will need to dig into this if there is an issue with DirectInput.

[Draco1962]

According to the Ipac4 page it does support Xinput. Have you looked into this?

https://www.ultimarc.com/control-interfaces/i-pacs/i-pac4-board/

[castcreator1]

Thanks for that. How does that pertain to this??

[castcreator1]

You can only get 2 set of controllers using xinput. Wouldn't work on my current configuration 

[Draco1962]

30 minutes ago, castcreator1 said:

You can only get 2 set of controllers using xinput. Wouldn't work on my current configuration 

Asking as I saw this on the I-Pac 4 site:

Relevent to current issue for a.) confirming Xinput works and b.) as a workaround until/if Dinput can be fixed.

[castcreator1]

Yes that's it. According to the instructions the ipac4 will only produce 2 controllers using xinput/dinput not the 4 of directinput.

[Draco1962]

5 hours ago, castcreator1 said:

Yes that's it. According to the instructions the ipac4 will only produce 2 controllers using xinput/dinput not the 4 of directinput.

Seems the instructions and product description are conflicting.

[castcreator1]

They are but I think maybe it will support 4.

 In regards to the modes I don't know enough about it to want to change anything. I was hoping it would be an easy mod of the program file on my end but apparently it isnt. How do I submit a feature addition?

 

 

 

[Draco1962]

The mode change would take place outside of GameEx, so no need for an enhancement or feature request.

If Dinput is not working then that is a bug, which has been reported here and verified by me previously.

[castcreator1]

The feature request I was talking about was removing the left and right stick movements in GameEx. 

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[Draco1962]

I get that. It is supposed to be managed by the feature already there but isn't for keyboard and dinput.

[castcreator1]

Thanka for all the help. I got the page function removed in game by going into imputs in setup and removing every function I didn't need .  All I left was select, back, up and down. Works great now. No accidental paging.