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Re: EventHandler vs ControllerState

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• Subject: [mg113403] Re: EventHandler vs ControllerState
• From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <ia67bm$srm$1@smc.vnet.net>

As far as I know ControllerState does not use a keyboard as
controller. You could use a virtual joystick to trick Windows (and
Mathematica) to think the keyboard is a joystick which can be seen
with ControllerState. ppjoy can do this (http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/
2009/11/finally-new-version.html), another one that I haven't tried
can be found at
<http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=vjoy>

Cheers -- Sjoerd

On Oct 26, 11:34 am, Nicholas Goble <ngo... at iwu.edu> wrote:
> This is my first post to the listserve.  I'm an fourth-year undergrad
> physics major who's done a bit of research using Mathematica. Now I'm trying
> out my own pet projects and need a bit of help.
>
> I'm trying to use my keyboard as a controller.  I'm wondering what the
> difference is between using EventHandler and ControllerState.  That is, what
> are the pros and cons to using EventHandler as opposed to ControllerState to
> detect a keystroke?
>
> Nicholas Goble