VBGamer

I am having a few problems trying to set up multiple joystick control under DX... let me try to explain what I am going through... I am planning a local multiplayer game that uses multiple joystick (a bomberman clone) - I want a 4 player game. I have set up the direct input object and everything else right as shown in the SDK (except for a callback function). I created an array of joystick devices, so I could have joystick(1) as the first joystick and so on until I have initialized all joysticks plugged into the computer (since I have only one that doesnt make much differece) I have notice that when I enable the player to be controlled by joystick, the game slows down, loosing 20 to 30 fps. Then I figured out the problem I have is that I am polling the joystick every loop during the game. I know now I HAVE to create a callback function, so the game runs at full speed (I hope).The problem I have IS on joystick.poll, since when I disable it everything fine (and I am the same movement routines I use with keyboard control that works correctly) My problem is: since I can have multiple joysticks connected to the computer, do I have to create a callback function to each one of them? How could I do it?? Or there is another way? Maybe setting all callbacks to the same function and retriving which joystick triggered the call? (I think that is the best one, but have no idea on implementing it at all) Any help apprecited... P.S.> Sorry for my baaaaad english 8( SLotman