How to find when stick is released

Question

I have problem to check when stick in my gamepad (XBox) is released. With buttons when I press the first I get pollData = 1.0 and after releasing it I get pollData = 0.0.

With analog sticks I don't have such event like pollData = 0.0

Thanks in advance for help!

Answer 1

Given you already have the axis as a

Component component;

(to be sure that it is an axis by testing

if(component.isAnalog())

then you can get the position by calling

component.getPollData()

The returned value will be between -1 and 1. -1 being left/bottom, +1 being right/top, depending on whether component.getIdentifier() equals Component.Identifier.Axis.X or Component.Identifier.Axis.Y.

So you could do something like

bool xReleased = false, yReleased = false;
Component[] components = controller.getComponents();
for(Component component : components) {
    if(component.isAnalog()) { //test that controller is analog
        Identifier id = component.getIdentifier();
        float axisPosition = component.getPollData(); //range: -1 to 1
        if(id == Component.Identifier.Axis.X && axisPosition == 0)
            xReleased = true;
        if(id == Component.Identifier.Axis.Y && axisPosition == 0)
            yReleased = true;
    }
}

if(xReleased && yReleased) {
    //do something...
}