[Pratik Kunapuli]

Originally Posted by The Engineer

and how exactly do you set that in the code

In Java, you would need some kind of control loop.

if(Math.abs(xboxControler.getRawAxis(2)) > .1)
{
    //do something
}

In the above example, the loop checks and makes sure that the value of the stick is above the "dead band" whether it is positive or negative.