How to setup and use a Joystick or Gamepad with your truevision3D game or app. This is the new and improve version the other one had so much bugs that I did not notice. I am using a SteelSeries 3GC 12Button Dual analog Controller with Turbo.

First of all you will need to declare it in your app.

Public gameGamepad As TVGameControllers

Next you will have to place the initialize code in the start of your app to create a new instance of it

gameGamepad = New TVGameControllers
gameGamepad.Item(0).Initialize()

Now comes the fun part using it! your input routine were ever you want to put it should have this code in it but tweaked for your your own app. This is what I did.

If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetButtonState(2) = True Then 'buttons on pad or joy
            
 
        Else
            
 
        End If 
 
 
'D-Pad
 If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView0 = 0 Then
            'up
            inpUPp1 = True
        Else
            inpUPp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView1 = 9000 Then
            'right
            inpRightp1 = True
        Else
            inpRightp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView2 = 18000 Then
            'down
            inpDownp1 = True
        Else
            inpDownp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView3 = 27000 Then
            'left
            inpLeftp1 = True
        Else
            inpLeftp1 = False
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView0 = 4500 Then
            inpUPp1 = True
            inpRightp1 = True
        Else
            inpUPp1 = False
            inpRightp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView0 = 13500 Then
            'right-down
            inpRightp1 = True
            inpDownp1 = True
        Else
            inpRightp1 = False
            inpDownp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView0 = 22500 Then
            'down-left
            inpDownp1 = True
            inpLeftp1 = True
        Else
            inpDownp1 = False
            inpLeftp1 = False
        End If
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.PointOfView0 = 31500 Then
            'up-left
            inpLeftp1 = True
            inpUPp1 = True
        Else
            inpLeftp1 = False
            inpUPp1 = False
        End If
 
 
 
        ' Left Analog Stick
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.x < 5000 Then
            'left
            inpLeftp1 = True
        Else
            inpLeftp1 = False
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.x > 5000 Then
            'right
            inpRightp1 = True
        Else
            inpRightp1 = False
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.y < 5000 Then
            'up
            inpUPp1 = True
        Else
            inpUPp1 = False
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.y > 5000 Then
            'down
            inpDownp1 = True
        Else
            inpDownp1 = False
        End If
 
 
        ' Right Analog Stick
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.rotationz < 5000 Then
 
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.rotationz > 5000 Then
 
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.z < 5000 Then
 
        End If
 
        If gameGamepad.Item(0).GetControllerStateAdvanced.z > 5000 Then
 
        End If
 

Side not for the left and right analog sticks: All values are 5000 greater or less than. This is the analogs range of motion from 0 to 5000 and 0 to -5000. You can make it so if you have like 2500 if you want different speeds depending on how far you have the stick pushed but that’s up to you to decide.

Side not for the D-Pad or Directional Pad all values are 9000 and to do the next direction it would be 9000 + 9000. For any diagonal it would be 1/2. As you can see above in the code.

D-Pad Values up = 0 down = 18000 left = 27000 right = 9000 up right = 4500 right down 13500 down left 22500 up left = 31500 no press = -1

I hope this page will help others as I just relearned how to do this and fixed the errors from the old version to make this new and improved one. Its the basics and it works.