[DMDX] Re: gamepad: polled or interrupt? At 07:02 PM 1/14/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello, all.
>
>I'm trying to set up a masked priming experiment using an USB Logitech
>Wingman Precision gamepad (not a joystick).
>
>In the Input Device section in TimeDX, the device is properly
>recognized, but it doesn't say "polled device" or the polling time.
>It doesn't say it is interrupt-driven either (like it does for the
>keyboard and the mouse.

   If it's not interrupt driven it's polled, there are only two 
options.  TimeDX won't list the polling time till you actually test it.


>Instead, I get a pair of coordenates, like (0, 65565) that change with
>the directional axis.
>
>Does this mean the device is not polled and that I should get rid of it?

   It means it's polled and isn't nearly as good as an interrupt driven one.


>If that is the case, can anyone recomend a gamepad that works?

   I would have said any USB device had to be interrupt driven but if 
TimeDX says it isn't then it ain't.  Depends how long it takes to poll the 
device, if it takes a small fraction of a millisecond to poll you can poll 
it every millisecond and it'll make a fairly good input device.

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