Is GameInput supported in Windows?

And annoyingly, as is always the way, I solved it shortly after posting the above.

When you create your gameInput object, one needs to ensure that the variable doesn't fall out of scope... as in, make sure you create a "private var gameInput:GameInput" as a Class property, then instantiate and add the event listeners.

I've done:

"var something:SomeClass;"

Attached event listeners and whatnot and done this many times before - only for testing! - and been OK.  But this time I got bitten by the variable falling out of scope, as one would expect!

My simple class contains:

package {           import flash.display.Sprite;           import flash.events.GameInputEvent;           import flash.text.TextField;           import flash.ui.GameInput;           public class GameInputTest extends Sprite           {                     private var gameInput:GameInput;                     private var textField:TextField;                     public function GameInputTest()                     {                               super();                               this.init();                     }                     private function init():void                     {                               this.textField = new TextField();                               this.textField.x = 10;                               this.textField.y = 10;                               this.textField.width = this.textField.height = 400;                               this.textField.multiline = true;                               this.textField.text = "Game Input Controller Test";                               this.addChild( this.textField );                               gameInput = new GameInput();                               gameInput.addEventListener( GameInputEvent.DEVICE_ADDED, controllerAdded );                               gameInput.addEventListener( GameInputEvent.DEVICE_REMOVED, controllerRemoved );                               gameInput.addEventListener( GameInputEvent.DEVICE_UNUSABLE, controllerUnusable );                               //trace( "GameInput.isSupported: " + GameInput.isSupported );                               //trace( "GameInput.numDevices: " + GameInput.numDevices );                               //trace( "GameInput.getDeviceAt: " + GameInput.getDeviceAt( 0 ) );                     }                     private function controllerAdded( gameInputEvent:GameInputEvent ):void                     {                               this.textField.appendText( "Controller Added." );                               this.textField.appendText( "GameInput.numDevices: " + GameInput.numDevices );                               trace( "Controller Added." );                               trace( "GameInput.numDevices: " + GameInput.numDevices );                     }                     private function controllerRemoved( gameInputEvent:GameInputEvent ):void                     {                               this.textField.appendText( "Controller Removed." );                               trace( "Controller Removed." );                     }                     private function controllerUnusable( gameInputEvent:GameInputEvent ):void                     {                               this.textField.appendText( "Controller Unusable." );                               trace( "Controller Unusable." );                     }           } }

That works fine, the TextField gets updated as do the trace() methods get called.

Hope this helps someone :-)

Tested and working on both Windows and OUYA :-)