Re: [gamepad] Only 4 Controllers? from Sven Neuhaus on 2017-01-25 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2017)

From: Sven Neuhaus <sven-w3@sven.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:30:13 +0100
To: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <142f2e48-5e3c-435b-95bc-b6686d2b0fdb@sven.de>

Am 22.12.2016 um 15:17 schrieb Florian Bösch:
> Afaik this stems from a limitation of Windows not shared by other OS'es.
> Does Firefox behave similarly?

Windows has two APIs, XInput (for XBox 360 controllers that also have
Windows drivers) and DirectInput.
Only XInput has this limitation of up to four controllers.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectInput#DirectInput_vs_XInput

-Sven

Received on Wednesday, 25 January 2017 13:30:57 UTC