check if button on game controller is pressed

I posted this on cruels, but nobody has replied yet so here goes...

I want my program to check if i am pressing a button/strumming my guitar hero controller(it us plugged into a usb slot.).

How would i go about doing this?

Also i making a very basic version of guitar hero. I currently have different colored shapes being moved by timers. Like so:

Code:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Shape1(0).Top = Shape1(0).Top + 350
End Sub

Is there a more efficient way of doing this?

note: I know nothing about creating a game in vb.

 

Oh, come on, nobody is willing to help?

 

just to let ya know i've read your question, but as brownhead said at cruels, i have no idea of how to do it.

I'd assume there is some API somewhere that would be able to capture the procedures sent by the controller, but yer i'm only guessing...

 

And as Covey DIDNT mention, don't double post if someone doesn't reply in a couple of hours, if the topic dies, it dies.

 

Try asking on a large programming forum.