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!

var onJoystickEvent = function(type, value) {
    console.log(type + ", " + value);
};

window.onload = function(){
    var joystick = new Joystick('/dev/input/js0', 30, onJoystickEvent);
};

Joystick

• constructor(pathToJoystickInput, millisToWait, handler): The constructor, handler is a function(type, value) which gets called every millisToWait milliseconds with new data from the joystick at pathToJoystickInput

  • type: a string denoting the type of the button

  • value: 0 if pressed or 1 if not pressed when digital, -32,768 to 32,768 otherwise

If you want to hack joyfull.js

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