Brian Peek just published his latest article, a .NET library for easy programming of a Nintendo Wiimote controller. His article and project on Channel9 includes the full source code for the library and how he built everything. The cool part is of course how easy it is to use the library as shown below…
- **Create a Wiimote class **
VB: Dim WithEvents wm As Wiimote = New Wiimote()
C#: Wiimote wm = new Wiimote();
Connect to the controller VB: wm.Connect() C#: wm.Connect();
Add an event handler for the OnWiimoteChanged event
VB: Private Sub wm_OnWiimoteChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As WiimoteChangedEventArgs) Handles wm.OnWiimoteChanged
C#: wm.OnWiimoteChanged += new WiimoteChangedEventHandler(wm_OnWiimoteChanged);
- **Poll the Wiimote State ** VB/C#: wm.WiimoteState.ButtonState.A
You can find a Wiimote Test project that walks through all of the properties available (that’s the screenshot above) in Brian’s download as well. Here’s a very quick example that pops a message box if you hit the **A button. **
VB Code that checks if Button A is pressed
Imports WiimoteLib
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class Form2
'Wiimote Class
Dim WithEvents wm As Wiimote = New Wiimote()
Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
wm.Connect()
End Sub
Private Sub wm_OnWiimoteChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As WiimoteChangedEventArgs) Handles wm.OnWiimoteChanged
If (wm.WiimoteState.ButtonState.A = True) Then
MessageBox.Show("You pressed the A button!“)
End If
End Sub
End Class
C# Code that checks if Button A is pressed
public partial class Form2 : Form { public Form2() { InitializeComponent(); }
Wiimote wm = new Wiimote(); private void Form2_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { //use this to listen to Wiimote events wm.OnWiimoteChanged += new WiimoteChangedEventHandler(wm_OnWiimoteChanged); wm.Connect(); }
void wm_OnWiimoteChanged(object sender, WiimoteChangedEventArgs args) { if (wm.WiimoteState.ButtonState.A == true) { MessageBox.Show("You pressed the A button!“); } } }