G'day! Today I purchased a third gamepad so I can test 3 gamepads in KarBOOM, and it doesn't work. The gamepads all work individually, but only 2 gamepads work. I know A8 only has built-in support for 2 gamepads, but I'm not using the built-in functions at all -- I'm using Windows functions for all gamepad reading.

I use joySetCapture, joyReleaseCapture, and joyGetPosEx. These all work great for the first 2 gamepads, and for some reason don't work after that.

Does anyone have experience with using more than 2 gamepads?

Also, can anyone recall if they've used "recapture gamepads" in KarBOOM to use gamepads that were connected after starting the game? I know I tested it and it worked when I first implemented it, but now when I try an recapture gamepads it loses all of them.

At game start I have this:
Code:
for (i=0; i<MAX_JOYSTICKS; i++) {
	hasJoystick[i] = (var)joySetCapture(hWnd, i, POLLING_PERIOD, JOYSTICKS_CHANGED);
	joystick[0] = JOYSTICK_SIZE;
	joystick[1] = JOY_CAL_READ5;
	if (hasJoystick[i] == 0)
		joyGetPosEx(i, (void*)joystick);
}
It captures and calibrates the joysticks.
I recapture joysticks with this:
Code:
function joyRecapture() {
	var i;
	for (i=0; i<MAX_JOYSTICKS; i++) {
		joyReleaseCapture(i);
		hasJoystick[i] = (var)joySetCapture(hWnd, i, POLLING_PERIOD, JOYSTICKS_CHANGED);
		joystick[0] = JOYSTICK_SIZE;
		joystick[1] = JOY_CAL_READ5;
		if (hasJoystick[i] == 0)
			joyGetPosEx(i, (void*)joystick);
	}
}
And it used to work great. Now it just releases all the joysticks and gets none of them back.

Jibb

Formerly known as JulzMighty.
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