Hi all, I am making a 2D game in Java and I want to use a joystick to control the movement of some crosshairs. Right now I have it so the mouse can control those crosshairs. My only criteria for this is that the control for the crosshair must stay in the game window unless a user clicks off into another window. Basically I want my game to capture whatever device is controlling the crosshairs much like a virtual machine captures a mouse. The joystick I am using (Thrustmaster Hotas Cougar) comes with some pretty advanced features, so that may make this easier (or harder). I have tried the solution listed on this page, but I am using a 64bit computer and for some reason it does not like that. I have also tried to use the key emulation feature of my joystick, but with little success. Here is what I have so far, any pointer would be appreciated.

Main Class:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.image.BufferStrategy;
import java.awt.image.MemoryImageSource;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class Game extends JFrame implements MouseMotionListener{

    private int windowWidth = 1280;
    private int windowHeight = 1024;
        private Crosshair crosshair;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Game();
    }

    public Game() {
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setSize(windowWidth, windowHeight);
        this.setResizable(false);
        this.setLocation(0,0);
        this.setVisible(true);

        this.createBufferStrategy(2);
                addMouseMotionListener(this);
        initGame();

        while(true) {
            long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            gameLoop();
            while(System.currentTimeMillis()-start < 5) {
                            //empty while loop
            }
        }
    }

    private void initGame() {
            hideCursor();
            crosshair = new Crosshair (windowWidth/2, windowHeight/2);
    }

        private void gameLoop() {
            //game logic
            drawFrame();
        }

        private void drawFrame() {

            BufferStrategy bf = this.getBufferStrategy();
            Graphics g = (Graphics)bf.getDrawGraphics();
            try {
                g = bf.getDrawGraphics();
                Color darkBlue = new Color(0x010040);
                g.setColor(darkBlue);
                g.fillRect(0, 0, windowWidth, windowHeight);
                drawCrossHair(g);
            } finally {
                g.dispose();
            }
            bf.show();
            Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().sync();
        }

        private void drawCrossHair(Graphics g){
            Color yellow = new Color (0xEDFF62);
            g.setColor(yellow);
            g.drawOval(crosshair.x, crosshair.y, 40, 40);

            g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 10, crosshair.y + 21 , 20, 20, -45, -90);
            g.fillArc(crosshair.x - 1, crosshair.y + 10, 20, 20, -135, -90);
            g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 10, crosshair.y - 1, 20, 20, -225, -90);
            g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 21, crosshair.y + 10, 20, 20, -315, -90);
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
        //empty method
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
        crosshair.x = e.getX();
        crosshair.y = e.getY();
        }

        private void hideCursor() {
            int[] pixels = new int[16 * 16];
            Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(new MemoryImageSource(16, 16, pixels, 0, 16));
            Cursor transparentCursor = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createCustomCursor(image, new Point(0, 0), "invisiblecursor");
            getContentPane().setCursor(transparentCursor);
    }
}

Another Class:

public class Crosshair{
        public int x;
    public int y;
    public Crosshair(int x, int y) {
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
        }
}