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Please Help me with my Joystick problems
Turnarcades:
You possibly have bad earths, some kind of touching contacts or quite simply a bad connecting cable or PC port. Either that or you have wired the connector to the 'Normally Closed' connection instead of 'Normally Open' one.
Marky_1979:
Cheers guys i'll be checking the panel over later and will see if its a loose wire or if something is a miss.
Neverending Project:
You could also try opening up a text program such as notepad and see if the joystick behaves as it should. If your joystick is mapped to the arrow keys, then make sure you type a bunch of garbage text in Notepad and then place the cursor in the middle. Press and hold the joystick and see if the cursor moves repeatedly or just once. Similarly, pressing a pushbutton should register multiple key presses (unless the pushbutton is mapped to Control, Shift or the Shift function in iPac).
To really determine if there is a wiring problem, you could disconnect all but one switch and try again. If it doesn't happen when only one switch is connected, this would point to a wiring problem and you could continue to reconnect switches one at a time until the problem happens again.
Marky_1979:
fixed thanks guys I changed to ps/2 cables re did my wiring just in case and it works