Programming xbox controllers

[h2osmack]

I figured out a way of programming an xbox controller to work with a pc game I made!!! My friend sort of gave me some tips but it's just using directx/xinput. It has to be a wired xbox360 controler though. Still pretty funky hehe

[Gshonk]

Yea, it was surprisingly easy the first time I did it too.

[h2osmack]

I was thinking of making like an object class for it so I can just call member functions every time I want to use the pad (maybe pads), do you reckon it will be easy to do?
Saves me messing about and I reckon it will be cleaner.

[HagNasty]

There are a TONE of options to adding gamepad controls. For PC even easier is SDL. One DLL a constructor loop and a update loop then define the keys it's really easy. in the end it actually comes out like this

if(SDL.joystick[i].button.pressed == true)
{
Car[i].accelerate();
}

Look into it there are a lot of tutorials for SDL and it works for almost any controller. I have yet to try it on a 360 controller though.