[evil-B]

Hello XBMC team,

I created a little patch to allow XBMC to detect joysticks plugged after XBMC started. See my post here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=94290 This is particularly interesting for owners of a Wireless X360 pad like me because if the wireless pad is not on when XBMC boots up it won't be detected later on.

I would like some comments maybe from someone in charge of this part of the code. I used WM_DEVICECHANGE Win32 message in WinEventsWin32.cpp but also in Application.cpp and I am sure it will cause platform dependent issues.

Thank you for your help and sorry for the repost here trying to get your attention.

[spiff]

neat. wonder how much work it would be use use dinput directly..

[evil-B]

I submitted a patch here http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11220

I think the notification mechanism implemented in this patch is independent from the layer beneath (SDL or DInput). If DInput was to be added here, it would probably be done as a derived version of CJoystick which is not impacted by this patch.

[spiff]

sure. was more of a this-is-the-only-reason-windows-needs-sdl-and-it-was-slightly-on-topic observation thingie.