Output joystick data to file

[samworthington]

Is it possible to use FreePIE to write the data from a 4-axis joystick to a text file? Preferably with rX, rY and rZ values comma separated and each time-stamp on a new line?

Many thanks,

Sam

[CyberVillain]

Google System.IO

There are a lot of classes in that names space that could be used for this. I'm on the run so can't write a concretecexample example

[samworthington]

That sounds promising. I'm a mechanical engineer so all this coding business is magic to me. If you could put an example together when you've made good your escape, that would be really appreciated.

Sam

[FrenchyKiel]

you could use this code

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from ctypes import windll

if starting:
	system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
	system.threadExecutionInterval = 30
	l = 0
	t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() 
	file = open("d:\\newfile.txt", "w")
	
l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()

x = joystick[1].x
y = joystick[1].y 
file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if keyboard.getPressed(Key.D):
	file.close()

all coding about variable t and l and the fisrt line is not necessary

you could adapt the code as you want

once you type ket D, the file is close and you ll have an error I/O because the program try to write in a file closed..

Thierry

[samworthington]

Thank you very much for this.

I've modified the code as follows, but I'm just struggling a bit getting it to work. It gives me the error "An item with the same key has already been added"

if starting:
system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
system.threadExecutionInterval = 30
file = open("c:\\newfile.txt", "w")

l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()

x = joystick[1].x
y = joystick[1].y
file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if keyboard.getPressed(Key.D):
file.close()

[FrenchyKiel]

its not good to write directly under c: in win7 or win 8 problem of rights, maybe it couldnt overwrite your file

try to write your file under mydocuments

[samworthington]

I've tried the following instead but still get the same error.

if starting:
system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
system.threadExecutionInterval = 30
file = open("C:\Users\User\Documents\newfile.txt", "w")

l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()

x = joystick[1].x
y = joystick[1].y
file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if keyboard.getPressed(Key.D):
file.close()

[CyberVillain]

This worked for me

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from ctypes import windll

if starting:
   system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
   system.threadExecutionInterval = 30
   l = 0
   t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() 
   file = open("c:\\temp\\freepie.txt", "w")
   x = 0
   
l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()

x = x + 1
y = x + 1

file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if stopping:
   file.close()

[CyberVillain]

btw, if you want a high rate on your scrpt and a little lower rate on the disk IO you can do

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from ctypes import windll

if starting:
   system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
   system.threadExecutionInterval = 1
   l = 0
   t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() 
   file = open("c:\\temp\\freepie.txt", "w")
   x = 0
   onSaveFile = True
   
l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()


if filters.stopWatch(onSaveFile, 30):
	x = x + 1
	y = x + 1
	file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if stopping:
   file.close()

[samworthington]

Thank you, but I think I must be doing something wrong. The script runs but just gives me a sequence of linearly increasing numbers:

84239026,1,2
84239057,2,3
84239089,3,4
84239120,4,5
84239151,5,6
84239182,6,7
84239213,7,8
84239245,8,9
84239276,9,10
...

Which bit of code specifies reading the joystick position?

I tried changing lines 17 and 18 to:
x = joystick[1].x
y = joystick[1].y
But then get the "An item with the same key has already been added" error.

[CyberVillain]

I dont have a jotstick at work so replaced that. Cant really tell why it gives that error, I get

index out of range: 1 since I do not have a joystick

[samworthington]

I've still been trying to get this to work but havn't got anywhere. I just get the error "An item with the same key has already been added" Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Sam

Here is the code:

from ctypes import windll

if starting:
system.setThreadTiming(TimingTypes.HighresSystemTimer)
system.threadExecutionInterval = 1
l = 0
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()
file = open("c:\\temp\\freepie.txt", "w")
x = 0
onSaveFile = True

l = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - t
t = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount()


if filters.stopWatch(onSaveFile, 30):
x = joystick[1].x
y = joystick[1].y
file.write(str(t) + "," + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "\n")

if stopping:
file.close()