Hello everyone!

First of all, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Ariel and i'm from Argentina. I study composition using electroacoustic methods. We had a subject on max programing and I've recently switched to PD. Unfortunately, I don't own a Mac and work on Windoze. So you can already figure why I'm looking for support, ha.

Well, I'm trying to make an interface from a generic usb joystick to send midi messages; nothing complicated. HOWEVER, [hidin] seems to dislike my joystick and won't recognize buttons nº 1 to 8. It does recognize de arrows, analogs, select, start and the analog buttons.

I downloaded the external [joystick] but, guess what? It recognizes everyhing else BUT not the arrows.

I'm trying to keep the patch as simple as possible, so I'd love to make [hidin] work. Besides, when I choose the joystick from the available HIDs in [hidin], it says it has 44 inputs, but it only recognizes a few (listed above).

As you can see, from my experience with [joystick], all the buttons actually work (I've also tested it on games). So I can't figure out why [hidin] isn't recognizing some of them.

I hope you guys can help me! I'd really appreciate it!

Yours sincerely,

Ariel.

P.S: Please excuse my terrible english.

Hey Shankar, thanks for replying!

What you're saying is true, but what puzzles me is that all the buttons are received by PD, but by diferent objects! Besides, I tried using programs like Xpadder or Joy to Key and they read the joystick perfectly. So I'm thinking there proably is a way to work around [hidin] that maybe I'm not understanding (since I'm new to PD).

Of course I will try out getting a better controler. But it would be great if I could make this one work, since I'm working with a friend, dis-assembling the joysticks and making powerful controllers (and it would be better if the joysticks are cheap, since we sometimes...screw up)

Anyway, thank you!