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[_H_o_L_E_]

Hi,
i am new to the wii and i am looking for a possibility to control a c-programm with the wii-mote-controller and i just want to ask what is the best api at this time?

[abstrakraft]

As the author of CWiid, I'm obviously biased
The wiimote library in CWiid is more advanced and has a better architecture for real-time use (callback driven rather than polling). It is not well documented, although there are two programs which use the library included in CWiid. CWiid lacks speaker support.
libwiimote, which is the API behind perlwiimote, is simpler to use, but requires polling and periodic calls to an update function. To my knowledge, it is also not well documented, although the example programs are a bit simpler than those in CWiid. It has speaker support, although it is glitchy (in my experience).
So the answer to your question is: it depends. What are you looking to do?
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[_H_o_L_E_]

hi again!

i tried your api sample programs and i think it is very good - thank you for this

but it is really hard to write own programs with it because there is no documentation.

can you give me the sourcecode for a simple program that just connects to the wiimote and reads a button / axis state?

it would be very nice.


ps: i would also like to contact you via email/icq or something else, is this possible? my email adress: hole@gmx.li

[abstrakraft]

My e-mail is on the CWiid wiki page, and in the CWiid package itself - feel free to contact me.
I know, documentation is sorely needed, but I haven't had time yet to do it. Sample program is a good idea - I'll throw something together for the next release, which I'm hoping will be this weekend, but that's looking more and more like a long shot. However, if anybody out there knows the formulation of Lebesgue measure and wants to do my homework for me....
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- some guy
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[tempalte]

thanks
chad

[tempalte]

Also give libcwiimote a try. It is just an API. The download includes some sample apps. You can get it from sourceforge


thanks
chad

[abstrakraft]

I believe libcwiimote was renamed from libwiimote to avoid conflicting with the libwiimote library that is part of CWiid. It's the same API I described as libwiimote (the API behind perlwiimote) above.
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- some guy
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