import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
from sys import exit

pygame.init()

SCREEN_SIZE = (640, 480)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode( SCREEN_SIZE, 0, 32)

font = pygame.font.SysFont("arial", 16);
font_height = font.get_linesize()
event_text = []

joysticks = []
for joystick_no in xrange(pygame.joystick.get_count()):
    stick = pygame.joystick.Joystick(joystick_no)
    stick.init()
    joysticks.append(stick)

while True:
              
    event = pygame.event.wait()      
    if event.type in (JOYAXISMOTION,
                      JOYBALLMOTION,
                      JOYHATMOTION,
                      JOYBUTTONUP,
                      JOYBUTTONDOWN):
        event_text.append(str(event))
        
    event_text = event_text[-SCREEN_SIZE[1]/font_height:]
        
    if event.type == QUIT:
        exit()

    screen.fill((255, 255, 255))
    
    y = SCREEN_SIZE[1]-font_height
    for text in reversed(event_text):        
        screen.blit( font.render(text, True, (0, 0, 0)), (0, y) )
        y-=font_height
        
    pygame.display.update()