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author | jmz <jmz@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-01-25 21:41:09 +0000 |
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committer | jmz <jmz@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-01-25 21:41:09 +0000 |
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Add joystick man page
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/joy.4 b/share/man/man4/joy.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70d148e --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/joy.4 @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.Dd January 23, 1995 +.Dt JOY 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm joy +.Nd joystick device driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd device joy0 at isa? port "IO_GAME" +.Fd #include <machine/joystick.h> +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The joystick device driver allows applications to read the status of +the PC joystick. +.Pp +This device may be opened by only one process at a time. +.Pp +The joystick status is get in an array of 4 integers via a read() +call. +.br +The X and Y positions are stored in values 0 and 1 of the array, +and the state of the 2 buttons are stores in values 2 and 3 of the +array. Positions are typically in the range 0-2000. +.Ss One line perl example: +perl -e 'open(JOY,"/dev/joy0")||die;while(1) +.br +{sysread(JOY,$x,16);@j=unpack("iiii",$x);print "@j\\n";sleep(1);}' +.Ss ioctl calls +Several ioctl() calls are also available. They take an argument of +type int * +.Bl -tag -width JOY_SET_X_OFFSET +.It Dv JOY_SET_TIMEOUT Fa int *limit +Set the time limit (in microseconds) for reading the joystick +status. Setting a value +too small may prevent to get correct values for the positions (which +are then set to -2147483648), however this can be useful if one is +only interested by the buttons status. +.It Dv JOY_GET_TIMEOUT Fa int *limit +Get the time limit (in microseconds) used for reading the joystick +status. +.It Dv JOY_SET_X_OFFSET Fa int *offset +Set the value to be added to the X position when reading the joystick +status. +.It Dv JOY_SET_Y_OFFSET Fa int *offset +Set the value to be added to the Y position when reading the joystick +status. +.It Dv JOY_GET_X_OFFSET Fa int *offset +Get the value which is added to the X position when reading the joystick +status. +.It Dv JOY_GET_Y_OFFSET Fa int *offset +Get the value which is added to the Y position when reading the joystick +status. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/joy? +.It Pa /dev/joy? +joystick device files +.Sh AUTHOR +Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> +.Sh HISTORY +The joystick driver appeared in FreeBSD 2.1 |