Vista RC 2 - New issue with Control Panel Extension and Force Feedback.

[Yann Hamiaux]

Hello,

Trying a game controller on RC2, there was no more force feedback nor the
control panel didn't show up when going in game controller and click
properties for our device, it's the default Microsoft pannel that show up.

After some research, I found that the reason why the force feedback didn't
work, was that under Vista RC2 (which was not the case for RC1) the
information need to be put under CurrentUser instead of LocalMachine.

However, I couldn't display the control panel I made which is suppose to
replace the standard one.

The latest documentation (august 25, 2006) I found on MSDN did not mention
anything about those changes...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Hid_d/hh/HID_d/di_ed719f0f-7ceb-4b44-9959-e8de9b5e37a0.xml.asp

if you know a web site, forum or anything else that has updated
documentation for Vista, please let me know!

regards,
yann

[Yann]

Okay, I got it to work... by moving the keys under LocalMachine to
CurrentUser (those under System\CurrentControlSet\Control\...\Jotstick\OEM).

The problem I got was some keys under 64-bit were not written properly (only
those under SysWOW64Node were written).

regards,

Yann

Post by Yann Hamiaux
Hello,
Trying a game controller on RC2, there was no more force feedback nor the
control panel didn't show up when going in game controller and click
properties for our device, it's the default Microsoft pannel that show up.
After some research, I found that the reason why the force feedback didn't
work, was that under Vista RC2 (which was not the case for RC1) the
information need to be put under CurrentUser instead of LocalMachine.
However, I couldn't display the control panel I made which is suppose to
replace the standard one.
The latest documentation (august 25, 2006) I found on MSDN did not mention
anything about those changes...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Hid_d/hh/HID_d/di_ed719f0f-7ceb-4b44-9959-e8de9b5e37a0.xml.asp
if you know a web site, forum or anything else that has updated
documentation for Vista, please let me know!
regards,
yann