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marares
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Gamepad

Post by marares » Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:08 am

Is there a way to control a gamepad through MacroScheduler?

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Re: Gamepad

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:14 pm

To answer that I think we'd need to know which Gamepad so that we can understand what that gamepad does. If it works by sending virtual key codes which are mapped somehow, then we can simply mimic sending those same key codes directly from Macro Scheduler. You wouldn't exactly be controlling the gamepad but would instead be doing what the gamepad does. But like I said, we'd need more information.
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Re: Gamepad

Post by marares » Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:20 am

Thanks for your reply, Marcus.
It's an XBox One controller, connected via USB.
I don´t think it has its keys remapped for keyboard ones.
the program i'm trying to control it with differs keyboard from gamepad.

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Re: Gamepad

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Mar 17, 2016 9:05 am

So I think the answer is - you can't.

It probably has special drivers to handle the hardware and so there's nothing Macro Scheduler can do to "simulate" what the Gamepad does.
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Re: Gamepad

Post by marares » Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:41 pm

Yes, that's probably it. Thanks for your time though!

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