1167457 - Vendor button on Xbox gamepad does not work on Windows

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), defect)

Description

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Using the (unauthorised) Mac OS X driver [1], the vendor button (middle Xbox button) is recognised as button index `10`.

On Windows, I can't get Firefox nor Chrome to detect when the vendor button. Interestingly, Steam's native app does handle the vendor button presses.

(Button indices 4 and 5 seem like the only buttons not registered to anything.)

Tested using HTML5Gamepad.com [2] using Xbox 360 wired and wireless controllers.


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[1] http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver
[2] http://html5gamepad.com/

Comment 1

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

I'm assuming the "vendor button" is the big round X with the lights around it?

Do you have the xbox accessories driver on windows? I know sometimes it'll grab that button to pop up the connection status dialog it has.

Comment 2

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Kyle Machulis [:kmachulis] [:qdot] (USE NEEDINFO?) from comment #1)
> I'm assuming the "vendor button" is the big round X with the lights around
> it?

Yes.

> Do you have the xbox accessories driver on windows?

Yep.

> I know sometimes it'll
> grab that button to pop up the connection status dialog it has.

It shows the Connection Status dialog when I press the vendor button. Interestingly, even though the dialog appears when I press the vendor, Steam still reacts to the button press. If Steam has access to it, I assume there's a way for Firefox to get that info from the XInput input.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This button isn't exposed by the driver on Windows. Sorry.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/microsoft.directx_sdk.reference.xinput_gamepad%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Comment 4

[:kip (Kearwood Gilbert)]

You can access this button through an unofficial API:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=26792.0