WinAPI for Game Controllers

Question

Hi there!

I know that all windows platforms automatically detect when a game controller is connected. I also know there is a WinAPI for polling these controllers. I can't seem to find the functions I am looking for anywhere.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Brendan

Answer 1

You can use either DirectInput or XInput from the DirectX SDK.

Answer 2

Or use the XNA toolkit available from Microsoft, this includes the DirectX runtime and makes it easy to develop a game and would be certain that there is an API by XNA to interact with game controllers.

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.

Answer 3

If you want to keep it simple, you can use the joystick APIs.