[PyQt] Re: Joystick Keyboard

[Neil Wallace]

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> From:
> "Jon Chambers" 
> Date:
> Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:58:26 +0000
> To:
> pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
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> Hi,
> I'm trying to write a program that creates an onscreen keyboard that 
> uses an 2-analogue stick joypad for input. I'm having issues becuase 
> the joystick needs to be polled regularly. I'm using a QTimer to call 
> a paintEvent update() that polls the joystick in the main class 
> (Keyboard). However there's some other drawing i want to do when the 
> joystick is polled. However the drawing is supposed to be done by a 
> different class with its own graphics etc (called Ring), and i found 
> the only way that seemed to work was to put the drawing i want to do 
> in the paintEvent of that class and both seem to get called. But this 
> seems kinda weird, and for some reason if i simply called the drawing 
> to be done by Ring as a method of the Ring object in the paintEvent of 
> Keyboard it doesn't work.
> I'm sorry if there's a bit confusing, i'm very new to programming and 
> QT and also asking questions on mailing lists.
>
Hi Jon,
Have you considered using pygame module for your joystick controls?

Neil.


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