{"author_name":"sealfin","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"eva33","time":"September 4, 2018 2:31 pm","epoch":1536089460,"text":"This is the wonderful post i saw today. I really enjoyed lot while reading this post thanks for sharing this kind of useful information.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"mummymom","time":"September 6, 2018 5:55 am","epoch":1536231300,"text":"Thank you so much for the information","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Taylah_322","time":"October 22, 2018 5:16 am","epoch":1540203360,"text":"helO?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"vedant12345","time":"October 30, 2018 5:25 am","epoch":1540895100,"text":"Thank you so much for this site.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"November 26, 2018 5:15 am","epoch":1543227300,"text":"As you’ve probably noticed by the spammy replies by now, this is the old\/legacy website of Ludum Dare, the new one is at ldjam dot com. (Hope I’m getting through, since you’re probably ignoring these by now…)","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"DyraSan","time":"December 24, 2018 2:31 am","epoch":1545636660,"text":"What is Handling Joysticks??
\n Is there any specific steps?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"DyraSan","time":"December 25, 2018 7:21 am","epoch":1545740460,"text":"Answer please.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1533218400,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"9","p_author":"sealfin","p_authorkey":"28917","p_urlkey":"34842","p_title":"SDL2 joystick interrogator 2.0","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1533218400","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"17","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"28917","us_name":"sealfin","us_username":"sealfin","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"text":"

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I recently rebooted development of a project I tried to develop for the Ludum Dare 20 contest held in April 2011, the theme of which was \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous to go alone! Take this!\u201d<\/p>\n

As the project will require a controller with an analogue stick to play I\u2019ve begun to develop a utility to interrogate the capabilities of various controllers; and, as I feel that the SDL2 documentation is lacking with regards to the joystick support offered by that library, I\u2019ve posted \u2013 in addition to an executable<\/a> of that utility for Mac OS X (and I want to release executables for additional platforms \u2013 the Raspberry Pi in particular \u2013 in the future) \u2013 the source code<\/a> to that utility to GitHub for the benefit both of myself and of others.<\/p>\n

Note that to use the utility you will need to have SDL2_image<\/a> \u2013 in addition to SDL2 \u2013 installed.<\/p>\n

Amongst the changes in version 2.0 of the utility are that:<\/p>\n