HTML5 Gamepad API on Chrome

Question

I\'m using Chrome (Version 19.0.1084.46). I enabled the Gamepad API in chrome://flags. I plugged in some game pads, but navigator.webkitGamepads is always an array

Answer 1

This didn't work for me but maybe it helps you? Pulled from here.

function updateStatus() {
    window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame(updateStatus);

    var gamepads = navigator.webkitGamepads;

    var data = '';
    for (var padindex = 0; padindex < gamepads.length; ++padindex)
    {
        var pad = gamepads[padindex];
        if (!pad) continue;
        data += '
' + pad.index + ": " + pad.id + "
";
        for (var i = 0; i < pad.buttons.length; ++i)
            data += "button" + i + ": " + pad.buttons[i] + "
";
        for (var i = 0; i < pad.axes.length; ++i)
            data += "axis" + i + ": " + pad.axes[i] + "
";
    }
    document.body.innerHTML = data;
}

window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame(updateStatus);


Or as a hard alternative, there's the Javascript Joystick Plug-in (demo here) but I don't think that works in Linux.