Emulator

Suggested fix: hold sliders half way in constantly, to decrease time it takes to move sliders into activated position.

This is not an acceptable fix. Time is not the issue. The real problem is that there are values that are expected by games that are never achieved because they are beyond the digital button press.

I'm sorry, but this fix is like asking users to tilt their heads 90 degrees because the video is rotated as such.

you really should try to not sound so demanding when requesting a feature from a project completely coded by volunteers. You don't pay for dolphin, everyone who contributes does so because they want to, not to fulfill your demands.

if windows has this built in, why should dolphin developers spend time adding a feature that should be provided by the operating system or drivers?

Mac OSX also doesn't support directx, I suppose we should port the DirectX runtimes as well?

facepalm mine was a joke, in seriousness, we don't have any active mac devs. Feel free to jump in and code something up and we can merge it in for you.

sorry, general rage towards feature requests/bug reports got loose, shouldn't have been directed at this issue

I apologize as well for the confusion, I wasn't aware that parlane was joking.

In regards to features that 'should be provided by system or drivers', in my eyes Dolphin should handle the controller the same way that the console does, regardless of what operating system it is running on. That is, to set the neutral values of the emulated input to the same as the neutral values of the controller itself. This is just part of accurate emulation. I do understand that this feature does not seem to have very high priority, but I will stand for this being an issue with emulation, and not something just for mac users. Incidentally, it would benefit Mac users the most.

This issue has nothing to do with "accurate emulation".
Dolphin's gamepad handling on OS X is poor.

Are you saying neutral values in the windows version of Dolphin can be calibrated? I was under the impression that it was something that had to be done on the operating system level.

No, Dolphin does not provide neutral value calibration on any OS.
I suspect this issue's cause is Dolphin being bad at determining what the "neutral value" is on OS X or OS X (or the device) not doing a good job of providing the "neutral value".

In Mac OS the joystick callibration is completly left to the game/application

Billiard, as you said there is no calibration on any OS. Therefore, the OSX version of Dolphin is just as bad at 'determining the neutral value' as any other OS. Also, it is not standard for devices to report their neutral values.