Sidewinder Joystick & LabVIEW Integration Problem

[adityakamath]

Hi, I am a student trying to integrate a MS Sidewinder joystick in a robotic application using LabVIEW. My sidewinder is detected on my PC (Win7, 32bit)  and works perfectly on other applications (including detection as a HID). Just that it is not able to get detected on LabVIEW (2011). 

I read up on different posts about device index being interfering with different devices and had all other external devices unplugged. The problem was still there. Some other posts with similar problems were solved by changing the device ids. I tried everything, still did not work.

Help required.  

[Deependra_Singh]

Hi,

As you mentioned that your joystick is getting detected by Windows 7 and directx installed is 11.0. You can use Initialize Joystic VI from connectiveity toolkit. For the use of Joystick in LabVIEW if you are having windows installed doesn't need any specific configuration. Detected Joystic can directly be used from fore mentioned toolkit.

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[falkpl]

You can try a different device number.  HI have used Win7 and Labview 2010 with a sidewinder.  It was odd but the code required the device number to be 1 on one PC and 0 on andother, but both worked.