hi again, Just a note for help in debugging, that pygame joystick support didn't change between pygame 1.8.0 and 1.8.1. However there were a few small changes between 1.7.1 and 1.8.0.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:31 PM, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > thanks for the report. > > I think ubuntu/linux might have changed their joystick support > somehow. I read as much not long ago, but haven't looked into it yet. > > > What are the errors? Are they segfaults, or are exceptions raised? > Or something else? > > > > cheers. > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:30 AM, pymike <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Me and my friend are having trouble with joysticks in pygame 1.8.1. We're >> both running Ubuntu 8.10 (on different machines in different countries) >> >> Basically, joysticks are initializing fine. joystick.get_button() also is >> working. However, when printing joystick.get_numhats() and >> joystick.get_numaxes(), we're getting a zero. Obviously, executing >> joystick.get_hat(0) and joystick.get_axis(0) gives us errors. We've also >> tried running some pygames that use joysticks, and they crash due to >> hat/ball errors. >> >> However, I've tried some other SDL games that use joysticks, and they all >> work perfectly. Help? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> - pymike >> "Python eggs me on." >> >
