Taking input from a joystick with C# .NET

Question

I searched around on Google for this, but the only things I came up with were outdated and did not work.

Does anyone have any information on how to get joystick data

Answer 1

Google led me here and while not a requirement of this question, OpenTK is a good option for Windows and Linux (under mono) support.

From the OpenTK docs, this code works on Raspberry Pi + Raspbian + Mono 3.12.0:

for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
    var state = Joystick.GetState(i);
    if (state.IsConnected)
    {
        float x = state.GetAxis(JoystickAxis.Axis0);
        float y = state.GetAxis(JoystickAxis.Axis1);

        // Print the current state of the joystick
        Console.WriteLine(state);
    }
}