NoJoy

Simple tool for enabling/disabling game controllers quickly.

Release Notes

v0.3.1 (2023-07-23)

(Minor release) Fix version string. This release is otherwise identical to 0.3.0. 0.3.0 will be removed from release lists.

v0.3.0 (2023-07-20)

Faster enable/disable and fix some incompatibilities with certain Windows versions.
More intuitive power icon instead of confusing enable/disable labels.
This version requires 64-bit version of Windows due to changes.

v0.2.3 (2023-07-11)

Fix crash when PnP operation generates no output
Read version from the executable instead of having it hardcoded.

v0.2.2 (2018-08-22)

Fix for Saitek X52 et al

v0.2.1 (2018-08-14)

Fix the incorrect appearance of "No game controllers found" message
Fix the display of error messages

v0.2 (2018-08-13)

Error messages - thanks to Uygar Yilmaz (@uygary)
When no game controller is found the error is properly displayed

v0.1 (2018-08-12)

Initial release

History

My friend @detaybey gifted me the game INSIDE a couple of years ago. I started up the game and noticed that the guy was always running without me doing anything. I thought it was designed like that, went along with it, and died soon. Then I noticed it was getting analog input signals from my HOTAS joystick and registering them as moves, even though I didn't select it as an input device.

I wished then there were a tool that allowed me to disable and enable my HOTAS setup quickly. I could unplug the joystick or you know, disable it from Device Manager but they all felt cumbersome. So I went for the second best option and stopped playing INSIDE.

Yesterday, I fell asleep during the day and was wide awake at night. So I gave it a chance and developed this tool. I was looking forward on making something on WPF as I'm quite fond of it. I liked the development process a lot. So, essentially this is my first WPF app.

Technical Notes

I enumerate gaming devices using WMI. I didn't want to enter the world of SetupDi to enable/disable so the tool simply invokes PowerShell to do that, which might be Windows 10 specific. If you have the will, feel free to adapt it to a native method.

To Do's

More test coverage
Support for Unity vJoy devices
Better UX for the discrepancy between green light and "Disable" verb
Native enable/disable for better compatibility with older Windows versions
Proper setup and signed binaries, so UAC doesn't perplex the user

Contribution

Please test it on different joysticks as I'm not sure how it will perform. Saitek setup is basically a hack and other brands might need different hacks as well. Unfortunately Windows doesn't provide an easy path to access correct identifiers of gaming devices, or even better a simpler API to disable/enable input devices.

Feel free to send in pull requests aligned with TODO as well.

License

This software is licensed with Apache License v2.0.

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