qjoypad installation on breezy

**tuesday20102001** · January 12th, 2008

I have seen this done previously with other key to joystick programs (joytokey). I am sure this would be possible with this program. Might need to alter the program. Might want to send this suggestion to the developer located on this site: http://qjoypad.sourceforge.net/

Even though the program isn't updated often, I still think its a start for us. Much appreciative Nathan Gaylinn, Thanks.

**Maxiom** · March 14th, 2008

As far as I know Nathan is not developing this program anymore though I think he will answer the odd polite question via E-Mail

I have not bothered him yet. What I would like to know is....

Okay this program can produce physical KEY code output as default. This is great in a lot of cases however, what about the modifier keys?

Is there a command line switch to allow or force system code outputs?
as in (Shift+1) = ! not as it stands right now as (Shift+1) = (Shift)

**Maulwuff** · June 1st, 2008

I managed to compile the sources from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=460265

modify the loop.cpp on line 34 first!
change
usleep(1) to
usleep(100).
10000, like mentioned earlier, was far too much for me.

to get rid from error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst
install libxtst-dev

i am on gutsy.

**BryanFRitt** · July 10th, 2008

about line 34 in /joypad-3.4.1/src/loop,cpp
usleep(XXXX), where XXXX is in microseconds(10^-6)
http://linux.die.net/man/3/usleep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsecond

most monitors are 60-120Hz. Doubling it, just because of some analog to digital rule I heard of (not that it really applies here(or does it?)) and then doubling it again for the heck of it, followed by dividing by ((10^-6)_s). Mines 60Hz so 240Hz, (1_s/240) divide that by ((10^-6)_s) and get 4166+2/3 take the integer part of that number and get 4166. That's the number I'm trying first.

p.s. I'm on 8.04_64_KUbuntu (not that it matters)
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Tried it out(4166), according to KDE System Guard, afterwards for qjoypad CPU usage went down to about 0% most of the time, maxing out at around 1.00% User and 1.00% System.
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2.2GHz Intel Dual Core 2, 64 bit, 8.04 KUbuntu

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The default USB data rate is 125Hz(but some overclock to 1000Hz), (1_s/125)/((10^-6)_s)=8000, so maybe the ideal setting (for USB joysticks) would be 8000-X, where X is the maximum time in microseconds it takes for this program to do its thing. Anybody know how to find X?

**crazyfuturamanoob** · November 3rd, 2008

Code:

arho@ohra-laptop:~$ qjoypad
bash: qjoypad: command not found
arho@ohra-laptop:~$

How can I make it so when I type qjoypad it runs qjoypad?

I downloaded and installed the source rpm with your instructions.
Also, I had no idea where to get the icons to link, so I made some.
And I didn't have that pixmaps or qjoypad folder in my /usr/local/share.

**Siggma** · May 8th, 2009

Ya know yall don't need to do anything fancy to compile this program. The dependencies were just renamed.

See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147506

This works for jaunty and probably Interepid and Hardy.

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential qt3-dev-tools libxtst-dev joystick jscalibrator

Then compile it normally.

Thanks for the loop.cp mod. If I can figure out the correct checkinstall syntax I'll make a working x64 deb and post it, along with the syntax for making a working x32 deb so one of you kind folks can post one of them.

-Tom