re "Create" controllers

[WibbleMan]

Hi, I'm new to this lark.

I'm a student using lwjgl to attach a Guitar hero guitar to a music program I'm writing (windows).

Everything works fine but some time after I've used:
           Controllers.create();

I want to be able to be able to update the Controllers with their current state.
I was wondering if there was a way.  Controllers.destroy() doesn't achieve this.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks!

[gaarazero]

I'm a student using lwjgl to attach a Guitar hero guitar to a music program I'm writing (windows).

Cool .

When you check the input, use:

Controllers.poll();
while( Controllers.next() ) {
	// Read the state of the controllers (i.e. Controllers.getEventSource(), etc.)
}

-gz

[WibbleMan]

Aha, I hven't tried that.

Will that detect if I've plugged in/removed a controller since using the
         Controllers.create();
command then?

Thanks

[Fool Running]

Almost every program needs to have the controller attached before it starts; LWJGL is one of those to my knowledge.
I would say most users should be able to understand this, so not detecting it at runtime should be fine.

[Qudus]

It's not LWJGL's fault. LWJGL just uses JInput, which currently doesn't support hot-plug-detection. I posted this issue on javagaming.org some time ago. They will hopefully implement it soon.

Marvin