Joypad Joystick 2: Testing order that buttons fire

[aidmm]

I have a question about how the Joypad and Joystick 2 object handle button presses.

I'm trying to set make a game that can determine which button is pressed first, but it seems there's a bias to either the first button pressed (for the Joystick 2 object) or the last button pressed (for the Joypad object).

Example: Testing the Joystick 2 object.
I've tested this by bringing the Frame Rate down to 2, then holding down Button 1 and then Button 2, and then a Counter displays "1" by using the "Last Button Pressed".

Then I try holding down Button 2 and then Button 1, but the counter will display "1", as if Button 1 was hit first.

Any ideas about why this happens?

Or any ideas about how to code in MMF2 a more exact way of determining which Button is pressed first?

Thanks, all.

[z33z]

I would do it like:
Any button pressed
+ Only one event when event loops

Set counter to last button pressed.

This should work, otherwise there might be some bug.. I don't have MMF for some days so I can't test it.

[aidmm]

Just tried adding "Only one event when event loops", but it still is doing the same thing.

Must be inside the extension.

[aidmm]

I just set up a new test to demonstrate what's happening.

Any Button Pushed on Joystick2
+ Only one action when event loops => Add 1 to Counter.

Every time a button is pushed, my counter should increase by 1.
If I press two buttons one right after the other, my counter increases by 2 (because I hit 2 buttons).
If I press two buttons at THE SAME TIME (as close as a human can get, anyways) then the Counter only increases by 1. As if it does not see two buttons being pressed.

If it helps, I'm running my app at a frame rate of 500, just to make sure the program is looping pretty fast.

Any thoughts?

[z33z]

Sorry, I can't do anything about when pressing buttons simultainiously, sice I don't get preciser joystick states from DirectX.

[aidmm]

Got it. I wasn't sure if it was something you wrote, or something uncontrollable.

Thanks.