[Fifthparallel]

Out of curiosity, is DirectInput only used instead of XInput to provide support for legacy controllers like the Attack 3 joystick? It's unrelated, but can we have a choice of using either DirectInput or XInput? Being able to use the two triggers for tank drive would be appreciated.

More related, though, if I read the post earlier correctly then DirectInput, getting system calls for laptop going to sleep, and Kinect server stuff were the meat of OS-specific parts of the Driver Station. Xinput, the successor to DirectInput, has already been ported to both OSX and has a man page entry for Linux-kernel distributions. OSX has power assertions instead of sleep mode system calls, and "sleep" is taken care of in userland by things like the X window system on various linux distros. Kinect server stuff doesn't look like it can be helped, although youtube presents people using the kinect images on both OSX and Ubuntu 9.04 and up.

Is there anything that can be done about this?