macOS Gamepads / IOHID: Analogous values for RT, LT?

I can't help you directly with your problem, but you might want to give ControllerMate a try, just to see if it can read the values you're looking for. That would at least tell you there's some way to do it. If ControllerMate can see the gamepad but can't read the data, there's a good chance it's not readable at all.

Bummer. I wouldn't hold out much hope for getting this to work, then.

Just out of curiosity, what device are you using?

digory said:

A Logitech F310.

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I've been writing a GamePadManager for my company for the last two weeks. I actually own my very own set of two Logitech F310s.

I got Bad News, the boolean input your getting isn't by fault of Mac's IOHIDManager. Instead it's because the F310 Triggers only FEEL like triggers and are really just buttons disguised as triggers. I've played games with them before (Rayman Origins, GTA4) and I'm pretty sure it's just a button in the trigger. It's possible the F710 from Logitech is better in this regard, alas we do not have that controller and I do not know if it's triggers are legit.

Try an XBox 360 Controller for Windows. Of all the controllers I've been testing here at the office, it's the only one that has triggers. The Driver for Mac works fantastically. It's also the most sensitive Controller I've tested on top of being the best laid out when it comes to the CookieIDs!


Further Note on F310:
the 'Mode' Button is used to swap the Left Analog Stick input with the HatSwitch input from the D-Pad. Your Input being switched between a 0-37000(or some big number like that) and a number between 0 - 315 (with 360 being the 'no buttons pressed' mode for the HatSwitch which is your D-Pad). So when these numbers are switched with the Analog Stick, that's probably why your values are so low. the HatSwitch is returning a Decimal Number between 0-360 to represent the direction your D-Pad is being set too. This can be switched with the Analog Stick. Why they are setting up the GamePad that way? That makes little sense to me.

Well this sucks. I bought f1 2013 in the app store and then went out and bought an F310 to play it with. So now I have no analog input for steering and breaks unless I use the right stick which is annoying. The instruction leaflet that came with the controller does say that the triggers are analog when used with XInput.

As each game pad has their buttons mapped differently, the best way to handle such is to have a repository of controller mappings.

SDL2 does have some of this in it.