oscjoy 1.00 review

oscjoy is a simple command line program that lets you use any connected joysticks as OpenSoundControl devices. Whenever the state

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 155K Developer: Jeremy Friesner

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oscjoy is a simple command line program that lets you use any connected joysticks as OpenSoundControl devices.

Whenever the state of a connected joystick changes, oscjoy will send UDP packets with OpenSoundControl messages in them to the specified IP address and port. The oscjoy archive includes source code and binaries for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP.

Here are some key features of "oscjoy":
Monitors all connected joysticks (or joystick-like input devices)
Monitors all axes, buttons, hats, and trackballs on each device
Sends OpenSoundControl packets via UDP to the specified IP address and port whenever any control's state changes
Has options to set the OpenSoundControl name prefix, polling rate, scaling, etc
Portable to most any OS (uses cross-platform joystick code from the SDL project)
Very small -- compiles to less than 100 kilobytes
Able to run in the background as a daemon process
Open source, licensed under the GNU LGPL license