[Bug] vJoy devices are not getting hidden by PadForge

[aguxone]

Hi i noticed a bug recently.
I already have vJoy installed (old software to make virtual controllers).
It's version is 2.1.9.1.
I am using PadForge 5.0 stable.
I currently have 6 vJoy that i use ocasionally, but i want them to be hidden by HidHide most of the time.
The thing is that they are not getting hidden at all, most apps and emulators i tested can clearly see it including:

• Duckstation emulator
• Dolphin emulator
• Supermodel3 emulator

The devices themselves are named
" Shaul Eizikovich vJoy - Virtual Joystick"

I also have HidHide 1.5.230.0 installed, which might conflict. For sure i can open the HidHide configuration client, and that the vJoy devices are NOT checked to be hidden.
If i hide them manually from this configuration client, next time i open HidHide the devices tab crashes and cannot any device from HidHide.
On the PadForge side, the vJoy devices have their checkbox always checked no matter what.
What i found the best is to use the HidHide CLI tool to forcefully hide or unhide the vJoy devices. However this CLI tool might crash also sometimes and cannot change the hidden state.

Motivation:
It is particularly useful to having vJoy devices hidden as on most emulators it is good to hide everything except connected or wanted joysticks so the particular order and mappings inside the emulator is reproducible every time ones opens them.
If vJoy is present let's say before a Xinput joystick, then the emulator might try to map a certain player to that vJoy virtual controller isntead of the connected one.

Is there a posible solution for this? Or not having HidHide and /or vJoy might be a requierement for PadForge?

As always thanks for the great works on this app.

[hifihedgehog]

@aguxone This was PadForge's bug, and commit 22f6e50 on the v5 dev branch fixes it.

vJoy's joysticks are collections of one software device that Windows enumerates on its own, so their device IDs read HID\HIDCLASS&COL01, HID\HIDCLASS&COL02 and so on, with no vendor ID in them. PadForge hid a row by its own device node only when that ID carried a vendor ID. Every vJoy row went instead to a lookup by vendor and product ID, which never matched, so a row set to Hide from Games hid nothing while its box stayed checked. Any HID collection now counts as the row's own node. Each vJoy joystick you set to hide is hidden on its own, and the ones you leave visible stay visible to your emulators.

Neither HidHide nor vJoy is a problem to have installed. PadForge writes HidHide's list through the HidHide driver, not its configuration client, so the client crashing after you hide a vJoy device there doesn't affect PadForge's hiding. You don't need the command-line tool for this either.

The fix comes with the next v5 dev build and the next release.