Hey guys! I was just wondering if I am able to map some key strokes for use with my PS3 controller using FlashDevelop and flash punk!
I have a website where I can host the .swf file, then on my ps3 I can navigate to the site and play the .swf. However I am not sure how I would go about mapping some keys for the ps3 controller!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
This is only supported on PC with a program like Joy2Key or Autohotkey. If you compile to AIR you can use Adobe’s game controller class, but as far as I know it only works with a few android devices.
Adobe’s GameInput class also works perfectly on desktop if you compile against AIR 3.8 beta. Check out this library to get going with it: https://github.com/arkeus/as3-controller-input
As far as I know, this also applies to web-deployed flash games - but don’t quote me on that!
(having ps3 controls won’t work either way, unfortunately).
Interesting! Last I heard it was incredibly limited. Unfortunately it still won’t work on Linux as the last release of Air for Linux was 2.8, I think? Still a lot better than it used to be.
My current project is not in AIR, just straight up AS3, will this be an issue?
True that - Linux support for flash development is basically nixed. You’re better using Haxe for that.
Guys here’s my quick patch with AIR support for game controllers. I do know it is pretty ugly so don’t make fun of it.
package
{
import flash.events.*;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.GameInputEvent;
import flash.ui.GameInput;
import flash.ui.GameInputControl;
import flash.ui.GameInputDevice;
import flash.utils.Dictionary;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import net.flashpunk.utils.Input;
/**
* FlashPunks extension to GameControllers based on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/game-controllers-on-air.html
* this static object requires Input to provide public static method overrideInput() provided here for reference
*
* public static function overrideInput(type:String, evnt:*):void
* {
* switch (type) {
* case KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN:
* for each (var k:int in keys(evnt)) {
* onKeyDown(new KeyboardEvent(type, true, false, 0, k));
* break;
* }
* break;
* case KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP:
* for each (var k:int in keys(evnt)) {
* onKeyUp(new KeyboardEvent(type, true, false, 0, k));
* break;
* }
* break;
* }
* }
*
* @author rostok
*/
public class InputGamepad
{
private static var gameInput:GameInput;
private static var timer:Timer;
private static var timerStop:Timer;
private static var _device:GameInputDevice;
public static var controls:Vector.<GameInputControl> = new Vector.<GameInputControl>;
public static var definesDown:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
public static var definesUp:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
public function InputGamepad()
{
}
/**
* defines mapping of gamecontroller input to FP's Input.
* If value will reach 0 it will trigger KEY_UP/release event
* @param name a Input string for example "up"
* @param control name of gamepad control for example "AXIS_1"
* @param value value that if equal will trigger KEY_DOWN
*/
public static function define(name:String, control:String, value:Number):void
{
definesDown[control + value] = name;
var x:Number = 0;
definesUp[control + x + value] = name;
}
/**
* this needs to be run in order to init gameinput
*/
public static function initialize():void
{
gameInput = new GameInput();
gameInput.addEventListener(GameInputEvent.DEVICE_ADDED, handleDeviceAttached);
gameInput.addEventListener(GameInputEvent.DEVICE_REMOVED, handleDeviceRemoved);
}
protected static function handleDeviceRemoved(event:GameInputEvent):void
{
trace("Device is removed\n");
}
protected static function handleDeviceAttached(e:GameInputEvent):void
{
trace("Device is added\n");
for(var k:Number=0;k<GameInput.numDevices;k++){
_device = GameInput.getDeviceAt(k);
var _controls:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>;
_device.enabled = true;
for (var i:Number = 0; i < _device.numControls; i++) {
var control:GameInputControl = _device.getControlAt(i);
control.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, onChange);
_controls[i] = control.id;
controls[i] = control;
}
}
}
protected static function onChange(event:Event):void
{
var control:GameInputControl = event.target as GameInputControl;
//trace("The pressed control is " +control.id + " with value " + control.value + " \n");
var d:String;
d = definesDown[control.id + control.value];
if (d)
{
Input.overrideInput(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, d);
//trace(control.id + control.value, "=>", d);
}
d = definesUp[control.id + control.value + control.minValue];
if (d)
{
Input.overrideInput(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, d);
//trace(control.id + control.value, "=>", d);
}
d = definesUp[control.id + control.value + control.maxValue];
if (d)
{
Input.overrideInput(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, d);
//trace(control.id + control.value, "=>", d);
}
}
}
}
To use it just add it anywhere in your project.Initialization is pretty straitforward:
InputGamepad.initialize();
InputGamepad.define("up", "AXIS_1", -1);
InputGamepad.define("down", "AXIS_1", 1);
InputGamepad.define("left", "AXIS_0", -1);
InputGamepad.define("right", "AXIS_0", 1);
InputGamepad.define("1", "BUTTON_9", 1);
InputGamepad.define("2", "BUTTON_10", 1);
InputGamepad.define("3", "BUTTON_11", 1);
InputGamepad.define("4", "BUTTON_12", 1);
Pretty sweet. I’m wondering if we can rework the overrideInput function into something that would feel more natural as a part of the main FlashPunk branch, then patch it in to provide better support for these kinds of things.
The GameInput class requires Air 3.7, you can’t do it in native AS3. Also note that the newest version produces A LOT of overhead because of a rogue timer.
Hi
Has anyone managed to get this working? I get the following error when I try to run it:
src\io\arkeus\ouya\control\GameControl.as(29): col: 47 Error: Access of possibly undefined property value through a reference with static type flash.ui:GameInputControl.
Can anyone help?