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You are completely circumventing the driver, and thus the GUI, when you use DI, or any of the MS APIs. You are going directly to the device. In fact, the user doesn't even need to install any 3Dconnexion software to work with your app. OTOH, there is a 3Dx driver in testing that will allow your use...

One thing I'm noticing that may have already been addressed is in the DIExample code as well as mine, the input values from the spaceball don't change when I change the "overall speed" on the 3Dconnexion Control Panel. Is this a known issue with DInput?

Well everything looks good and the device is updating except one problem. On MsgWaitForMultipleObjects it's just staying there and not responding. I read MSDN and it looks like I'm doing everything right. I guess it's not getting any events for the handle? What can I do to fix this? One thing to not...

jwick wrote:Make sure you are stashing it where you think you are.

Gotcha, will double check for that.

That's just a context pointer to get data into the EnumAxesCB callback. You can get that data in there any way you want, even an evil global variable (eek). Hmm I wonder why DIDeviceInfo *pDIDeviceInfo would be NULL in EnumAxesCB function... I'll give it another shot and hopefully it works. Thanks ...

Thanks for the help jwick. It's much appreciated. One last question I have is, do I have to initialize the windows form to get DInput to work? From the example code that looks like what I have to do but I may be incorrect in this. I think that was the problem I was having earlier is that the HWND I ...

Let me add a bit more detail that can be helpful. The application I am using the SpaceExplorer device for is a console application that is basically a "wrapper" for a 3d application that uses DirectX. We used to use direct calls to the 3dConnexion software such as SIOpen but those are no l...

I don't know what the scope of "don't use Win32 windows" means. It doesn't run on Linux. I don't think you need a windows event loop if that's what you are asking about. The sample code that you are apparently using only uses windows to display information to the end user. You should read...

jwick wrote:??
global variable ??

What do you mean by 'global variable'? Am I missing a variable?

Am I even able to use DInput if I don't use Win32 windows?

Double thread, please ignore this one.

I have already posted this topic in the general "Developer's Forum for Windows" but figured to post here as well. If I shouldn't have I apologize. First off, I am using the SpaceExplorer and attempting to get this device to work with our software using DirectInput: http://www.3dconnexion.c...

First off, I am using the SpaceExplorer and attempting to get this device to work with our software using DirectInput: http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spaceexplorer.php The problem that I'm getting stumped at is in EnumAxesCB function. *pDIDeviceInfo is NULL so my application crashes. Here's what...