#Help needed with converting pointing stick to joystick

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small moss
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I'm a wannabe dev and I dunno much about developing and coding. I started JavaScript and then Python but bc studies had to leave them. I also game sometimes and am specially interested in Aviation - Airplane related games. I want to make a joystick myself which goes in the middle of the keyboard (pointing stick cover removed) and helps me to play joystick games. (remember, this is not necessary for those games) and the only prb I am having is that after searching and everything, I dont find any app/code etc. which fulfills my requirement of making the cursor go back from where it was calibrated or in the middle - like a joystick does... I can make the joystick (out of self hardening clay and other things etc., I dont want help in that) but I would be grateful if somebody points me out to a software or guides me to do this.. (or if it is easy, somebody can make a short code?)

Windows 10 64-bit
Dell laptop

Thanks for reading,
Blazer :D

(I've added the tag JavaScript bc I couldnt send the message otherwise, I dont know which language this will need)

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pearl ether
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You need to be able to do the following:

  • Set the cursor position
  • Capture the cursor's speed and direction
  • Convert cursor's speed into joystick angle
glacial plume
pearl ether
glacial plume
pearl ether
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It's from 2010 saying it's outdated and hasn't been updated in a while

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There's a German web page from the early 2000s explaining how to set it up for Windows 95

glacial plume
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Oh cause I did dig that up on my Thinkpad. LOL

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I've seen the question come up a bunch of times so I knew there's some approaches.

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IMO the rubbery centering of the trackpoint, even with a joystick screwed into it, shouldn't be very ideal as a joystick. It's been my experience that one of the common fail points of joysticks is the centering mechanisms wearing out unevenly, when something physical doesn't fail entirely.