Usually controllers don't speak directly to your application nor browser. Usually there is a driver that the controller has, this talks with the appropriate protocol to the device. The driver itself provides some common HID api that the OS has specified.
The reading and writing the input is effectively about communicating with the OS. https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/master/src/linux_joystick.c https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/master/src/win32_joystick.c You can do those calls using syscall package, e.g. one for Windows https://github.com/egonelbre/exp/blob/master/game/gamepad/xinput_windows.go and a quick search on godoc.org revealed this: https://godoc.org/?q=joystick https://github.com/simulatedsimian/joystick Of course since it's OS specific, you need to implement for all of them. Where each might their own quirks. SDL and GLFW are both thoroughly tested. I'm not sure about the existing package, but it shouldn't be difficult to switch when you do encounter problems with the pure Go libs. + Egon On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:19:24 UTC+3, Zellyn wrote: > > Inspired by a Wired article > <https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-one-x-and-xbox-one-deals/> mentioning > XBox One gamepads for $34, I finally got a game controller. > > Naturally, now I'm wondering how to read it from Go :-) > > It connects to Mac OS over Bluetooth. Various games seem to vary in > whether they recognize or even notice it, but it works flawlessly in Chrome > using http://html5gamepad.com/ > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fhtml5gamepad.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHgk2HZ9Nwso2KFkEVEFST54APnmQ> > > So, if there's anyone here who even begins to know how gamepads work… am I > about to wade into an ocean of pain? I'd *like* to avoid linking to sdl > as gobot seems to do for joysticks: it would be lovely to have something in > pure Go. Is that unlikely? > > How are games (and Chrome) even finding the controller? Do they have to > interrogate the Bluetooth stack, and then speak both Bluetooth and the XBox > controller protocol? > > Any help appreciated. > > Zellyn > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
