SDL_CloseJoystick(3)

🌸 SDL_CloseJoystick 💅

okay bestie, so this page is literally all about SDL_CloseJoystick — and yes, the manual name and the title are the same thing, that's just how these pages roll, iykyk ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

SDL_CloseJoystick — close a joystick that you previously opened with SDL_OpenJoystick().

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you opened it, now you're closing it. closure is self-care 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_joystick.h>

void SDL_CloseJoystick(SDL_Joystick *joystick);

so you gotta pull in <SDL3/SDL_joystick.h> first, then you can call it. no return value, no drama, it just returns void. periodt 💖

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🌈 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🌈

• joystick — the joystick device to close. like, the actual one you got back from opening it. give it here, we're done with it 👋

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🦋 THREAD SAFETY 🦋

it is safe to call this function from any thread. no cap, any thread at all, she's flexible like that 💅

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0. if you're on something older... bestie, upgrade, respectfully 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• SDL_OpenJoystick(3) — the one that started it all. you two are a matched set fr fr 🔥

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that, go close your joysticks responsibly 👑

this little love letter came to you from Simple Directmedia Layer (the icon, the legend) shipping SDL 3.4.18, and yeah the date line said SDL_CloseJoystick(3) too, which is giving very much "we contain multitudes" 🎀✨ bye bestie 💖