Live Dev Q&A: Guided Question

[CptLucky8]

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[ ] Avionics
[ ] Flight Planning for Airport Approaches 
[X] Input/Controls
[ ] Flight Model

Here are links to some Input/Controls questions:

About Force Feedback implementation (DirectInput vs XInput):

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@CptLucky8

@Jummivana Force Feedback codebase is not there at all and I believe Martial is thinking about XBox Controller Rumbling instead. This has nothing to do with Force Feedback though otherwise I believe it would be picked up automatically if FS2020 is already implementing both XInput and DirectInput isn’t it?

Rumbling is an XInput feature:
Getting Started With XInput - Win32 apps

XInput is an API that allows applications to receive input from the Xbox Controller for Windows. Controller rumble effects and voice input and output are supported.

Furthermore, XInput has support for force feedback with rumble, and just rumble. Calling the force feedback functions do nothing, and the XInput caps structure reports force feedback is not available. Xinput only supports rumble, not full force feedback. XInput was build to support the Xbox360 controller and only supports features those controllers provide, it has no provisions for additional buttons, axes or full force feedback. All that stuff from DirectInput was left behind to create a much simpler API.

Force Feedback is a DirectInput feature:
DirectInput | Microsoft Docs
DIEFFECT Structure | Microsoft Docs