BGE: Adding a Python interface for handling joysticks without needing logic bricks. These new SCA_PythonJoystick objects can be accessed using bge.logic.joysticks, which is a list of joysticks. The length of the list is the number of maximum supported joysticks, and indexes that do not have a joystick available are set to None. This means joysticks can be checked for using something like:

if bge.logic.joysticks[0]:
    activate_player_one()

if bge.logic.joysticks[1]:
    activate_player_two()

etc..

The interface exposed by SCA_PythonJoystick is very similar to the joystick logic brick except for one key difference: axis values are normalized to a -1.0 to 1.0 range instead of -32767 to 32767, which is what the logic brick exposed.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.cpp b/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.cpp
index 8b343be8226..b7fbe958c86 100644
--- a/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.cpp
+++ b/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.cpp
@@ -321,3 +321,12 @@ int SCA_Joystick::pAxisTest(int axisnum)
 	return 0;
 #endif /* WITH_SDL */
 }
+
+const char *SCA_Joystick::GetName()
+{
+#ifdef WITH_SDL
+	return SDL_JoystickName(m_joyindex);
+#else /* WITH_SDL */
+	return "";
+#endif /* WITH_SDL */
+}
diff --git a/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.h b/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.h
index 912484a2fe5..dd9fbefa545 100644
--- a/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.h
+++ b/source/gameengine/GameLogic/Joystick/SCA_Joystick.h
@@ -192,6 +192,11 @@ public:
 	 * Test if the joystick is connected
 	 */
 	int Connected(void);
+
+	/**
+	 * Name of the joytsick
+	 */
+	const char *GetName();
 };
 
 #endif