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Joystick Input

Bill — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:28:01 -0400

I currently have a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 and am trying to use it in a GUI. For whatever reason, I'm unable to detect the joystick. Does anyone know of any issues with this joystick and the vrjoystick or analoginput('joy') function, as neither appears to be working properly?

Re: Joystick Input

Bill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:18:02 -0400

Bump!

Re: Joystick Input

Jan Houska — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:45:51 -0400

Hi,

do you have the joystick correctly installed in your operating system?
Are you able to use it from the OS or from other applications?

Jan

Bill wrote:
> I currently have a Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 and am trying to use it in a GUI. For whatever reason, I'm unable to detect the joystick. Does anyone know of any issues with this joystick and the vrjoystick or analoginput('joy') function, as neither appears to be working properly?

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Re: Joystick Input

Sherryl Radbil — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:50:04 -0400

Hi Bill,
The joystick is not supported by Data Acquisition Toolbox out of the box, but many people have had success. See this article
http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/digest/june01/joystick.html
You can find the code here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/798

You may have to make some tweaks, but this will get you started.
Also, googling
matlab joystick
or sidewinder
may lead you to additional alternatives.

All the best,
Sherryl

Re: Joystick Input

Bill — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:49:02 -0400

Sherryl,
Thank you so much for your help. As it turns out, I already stumbled across that package and downloaded it, but still to no avail. When I type in daqregister('joy'), I get 'Register function failed.' Any other ideas, or do I need to just get a new joystick?

Re: Joystick Input

Sherryl Radbil — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:51:02 -0400

Hi Bill,
Registration problems are tricky to diagnose remotely.
We've greatly improved error messages from registration problems in newer releases so if you're on an older release and can upgrade to R2009b you should do so.
Also, registration is different on XP and Vista due to Vista's UAC, but in both cases you must be logged in as an administrator of the PC or be running MATLAB as an administrator in order to successfully register.
Another thought is to provide the full pathname to the adaptor to daqregister.
Search for daqregister both on The MathWorks website and in these newsgroups for additional places to find information.
Sherryl