joyfull

Use a joystick in the browser

How to run the proof of concept example:

Move npJoyfull.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins
Open FBControl.html in Chrome or Firefox

v0.1 API

Warning: Subject to change!

plugin().init(pathToDevice) //where pathToDevice is the path to 
                            //the Joystick file descriptor on your machine
setInterval(function() {
  plugin().poll();
}, rateInMillisToFlushJoyEventBuffer);

var joyEventHandler = function(joyButton) {
  if (joyButton.type == 'analog_x') {
    xPos += joyButton.value;
  }
}

plugin().addEventListener('joystickData', joyEventHandler, false);

joyButton object

• joyButton.type: A string denoting the button that was acted on, one of

 'analog_x', 'analog_y', 'analog_ball' //these are the analog types
 
 'trigger', 'down_top', 'up_top', 'left_top', 'right_top', 'leftup_bot', 
 'leftdown_bot', 'centerleft_bot', 'centerright_bot', 
 'rightdown_bot', 'rightup_bot'        //these are the digital types

• joyButton.value: The value of the button pressed or analog input.

  The value is between -32,768 and 32,767 if joyButton.type is an analog type

  The value is 0 if the button is not pressed and 1 if it is pressed if joyButton.type is a digital type