Joysticks

Is there a way to get the name of the joystick attached? In commercial games they grab the name of the stick (XBox 360 USB for example). I thought this would be helpful for people with multiple sticks attached to the same machine. I know joytype reports digital or analog but I was hoping for something a little more specific. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Not with any of the standard blitz commands.

Are there any free dlls that do the trick?

Try this.

That works! THANKS!

From within B+ I add the dll and .decls into the userlibs directory. To include it with my game would I just drop it in the same directory as my executable?

Nevermind... seems to include the files inside the exe. Even nicer!

Hi! joystick newbie here....I can't get this to work...using XP and blitz+ 1.44.
"Error in userlib "winmm.decls" -expecting '(' after function identifier"

winmm.decls
===============
.lib "winmm.dll"
winmm_joyGetDevCaps%(id%,lpCaps*,uSize%):"joyGetDevCapsA"

;
; Joystick Property constants
; Do not change!
;
Const joy_Mid = 0
Const joy_Pid = 2
Const joy_Name = 4
Const joy_Xmin = 36
Const joy_Xmax = 40
Const joy_Ymin = 44
Const joy_Ymax = 48
Const joy_Zmin = 52
Const joy_Zmax = 56
Const joy_NumButtons = 60
Const joy_PeriodMin = 64
Const joy_PeriodMax = 68
Const joy_Rmin = 72
Const joy_Rmax = 76
Const joy_Umin = 80
Const joy_Umax = 84
Const joy_Vmin = 88
Const joy_Vmax = 92
Const joy_Caps = 96
Const joy_MaxAxes = 100
Const joy_NumAxes = 104
Const joy_MaxButtons = 108
Const joy_RegKey = 112
Const joy_OEMVxD = 144

code:
==============
Include "winmm.decls"

Graphics 400,400,0,2

joyport = 0
Print "Joystick "+joyport+" Properties:"
Print " Mid - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Mid)
Print " Pid - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Pid)
Print " Name - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Name)
Print " Xmin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Xmin)
Print " Xmax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Xmax)
Print " Ymin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Ymin)
Print " Ymax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Ymax)
Print " Zmin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Zmin)
Print " Zmax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Zmax)
Print " NumButtons - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_NumButtons)
Print " PeriodMin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_PeriodMin)
Print " PeriodMax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_PeriodMax)
Print " Rmin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Rmin)
Print " Rmax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Rmax)
Print " Umin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Umin)
Print " Umax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Umax)
Print " Vmin - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Vmin)
Print " Vmax - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Vmax)
Print " Caps - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_Caps)
Print " MaxAxes - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_MaxAxes)
Print " NumAxes - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_NumAxes)
Print " MaxButtons - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_MaxButtons)
Print " RegKey - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_RegKey)
Print " OEMVxD - "+GetJoyProperty(joyport,joy_OEMVxD)
Print
Print "Press any key to quit!"
WaitKey()
End

HELP!