Handling Game Controls On Windows 8 - Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8 - page 62

Table 4-1. Xbox Controller Key Cheat Sheet

Key Description Reference

Y Y Button (Yellow Button) y

B B Button (Red Button) b

X X Button (Blue Button) x

A A Button (Green Button) a

1 Right Stick RightThumbX, RightThumbY

2 Directional Pad (D-pad) dpad_up, dpad_right, dpad_down, dpad_left

3 Left Stick LeftThumbX, LeftThumbY

4 Back Button back

5 Left Bumper left_shoulder

6 Left Trigger LeftTrigger

7 Guide Button N/A

8 Start Button start

9 Right Trigger RightTrigger

10 Right Bumper Right_shoulder

Getting this up and running in your own game is now going to be relatively easy. First, you
are going to need to set up a reference to the controller. You can do this in your default.js
class with the following line of code in the app.activate function right before you initialize
your game.

// Although the API supports up to 4 controllers per machine,
// this sample only works with a single controller.
controller = new GameController.Controller(0);