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Kefir
Kefir

Reputation: 125

Getting started on custom gamepad handling

Since I find the default gamepad handling of Windows to be lacking, I'd like to write a custom interface for that purpose. Basically, I want to add a layer between the plugged in gamepads and the Windows gamecontroller management. While I'm not sure how to tackle this problem, these are the steps I was thinking off so far:

However, apart from the second bullet point I don't know whether (and how) these are doable. Are there any APIs that can interact with devices the way that I need to? Do I need to get into driver programming and rewrite gamepad drivers?

I know this is a broad question to a very narrow topic, but I'm kind of at a loss where to get started. Any help would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 290

Answers (1)

nondebug
nondebug

Reputation: 1031

HIDGuardian covers your first bullet point:

https://github.com/nefarius/ViGEm/tree/master/Sys/HidGuardian

HIDGuardian is used by InputMapper to hide the physical gamepad when a virtual gamepad has been created for the device. This prevents applications from seeing input from the same gamepad twice.

Upvotes: 1

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