I use a gamepad, because I find the joysticks annoying and the simpler layout reduces the likelihood of my pressing the wrong button — since gamepads aren’t directly supported I do it via keyboard remapping — is there software for the Mac which will map a gamepad’s buttons to keypresses?
I don’t know about game controllers, but this isn’t one.
EDIT: Perhaps I should expand on this, @splace73, @WillAdams. Using a small utility program of it’s own, this device maps specific keys on the keyboard, so the keys used to jog the machine on the computer’s keyboard can be mapped to this device when the jog screen is ‘modal’. As it has nine keys, I use the remaining three to adjust the jogging speed.
So is this a Mac issue, or a Carbide issue? I think Apple has added game controller support, but not sure what the limitations are. Are you able to try it there?
I believe it’s that we haven’t added game controller support to the Mac version yet — if you really want to use one, I believe it’s also in the Raspberry Pi version.
I tested by plugging in an 8bitdo gamepad which registers as a game controller/joystick — Mac OS X sees it, but Carbide Motion didn’t register it.
Didn’t try the utility I linked above since it’s not a signed executable.