data from USB joystick

[-=>JB<=-]

The info below is from the USB Overdrive docs.

• Introduction
◊  The USB Overdrive is a universal USB driver that handles all USB mice, trackballs, joysticks and gamepads from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on an application-specific basis. It reads all kinds of wheels, buttons, switches and controls and supports scrolling, keyboard emulation, launching as well as all the usual stuff like clicking, control-clicking and so forth. The USB Overdrive can easily handle several USB devices at once- I have two mice, one trackball, two joysticks and one gamepad connected to the same iMac, and each of them comes from a different manufacturer.
◊  Because each control in each device can be fully configured, the USB Overdrive lets you use any joystick or gamepad with any game, including the ones that don't support Apple's InputSprocket. You can map your joystick movements and buttons to the keyboard and mouse to make the game believe you're playing on the keyboard, and you can do this mapping separately for each game so that it's immediately available as soon as the game is launched.
◊  The mouse settings allow you to speed up your daily tasks by assigning useful actions to all the extra buttons and wheels in your USB mouse. You'll typically want to assign a control-click to the right button for easy contextual menu acces, and enable document scrolling if your mouse has a scrolling wheel.
◊  The Control Panel includes an active help feature that explains each command and option as you move the cursor around.

-=>JB<=-


On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> How does that work?  Do you still open it as a joystick device or does USBoverdrive convert the joystick to some other device?  Does this do more than calibrate the joystick?  -- Dar
> 
> On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:42 PM, -=>JB<=- wrote:
> 
>> I don't know but the developer sounds like they are
>> continuing to improve it from the info they provide
>> and might even add something if asked since they
>> have listed a number of things they have recently
>> added.
>> 
>> -=>JB<=-
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Richmond wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/28/2010 01:38 PM, -=>JB<=- wrote:
>>>> On Mac I use USB Overdrive.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html
>>>> 
>>>> -=>JB<=-
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Will that take signals from any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / steering-wheel / foot-pedal
>>> and output them as keyDowns ??????????????????????/
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