Bug with a PS4 controller on the Mac

[AshleyF]

Dear All,

I've detected a bug with SFML and its joystick routines on the Mac.

Plug in a PS4 controller via an appropriate usb cable.

Get SFML to detect all the buttons.

Bug is:

It counts 14 but misses the up/down/left/right buttons on the top left of the controller. So it should detect 18, but other than that, everything works fine.

I know that it's an error with SFML as I tested the PS4 controller with an old GLFW program I wrote, and that detected all the buttons appropriately.

If anyone can fix this bug, then I'd be most grateful.

Kind regards,

AshleyF

[G.]

Aren't they PovX and PovY axis?

[AshleyF]

Dear G.

Unfortunately they are not as I checked that.

According to the GLFW program I wrote, they are read as buttons only.

Kind regards,

AshleyF

[K.F]

It counts 14 but misses the up/down/left/right buttons on the top left of the controller. So it should detect 18,

I know nothing about mac, but the controller has only 14 digital buttons including the d-pad - not counting the PS button and clickable touch screen -, the rest are analogue.

[Hapax]

The d-pad "buttons" of a PlayStation 4 controller are analogue, aren't they?

[K.F]

The d-pad "buttons" of a PlayStation 4 controller are analogue, aren't they?

Nope, only PS2, and PS3 controllers have analogue face buttons. Sony dropped it for the PS4, and went back to pure digital since almost no one used them.

[Hapax]

Makes sense. Just makes people press it harder