SDL_GetCameraDriver(3)

💖 SDL_GetCameraDriver(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the man pages, this one's called SDL_GetCameraDriver and it's lowkey adorable 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetCameraDriver — use this function to get the name of a built in camera driver. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_camera.h>

const char * SDL_GetCameraDriver(int index);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: the list of camera drivers comes to you in the order that they are normally initialized by default. the ones that seem more reasonable to choose first (as far as the SDL developers believe, and honestly? they're the ones who'd know 💅) are earlier in the list. so like, index 0 is giving main character energy and the later ones are... also there 🫶

and the names? the names of drivers are all simple, low-ASCII identifiers, like "v4l2", "coremedia" or "android". these never have Unicode characters, and are not meant to be proper names. so don't go naming your cat v4l2, it's not that kind of name, it's an identifier. no cap 🌈

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• index — the index of the camera driver, bestie. the value ranges from 0 to SDL_GetNumCameraDrivers() - 1. so like, keep it in bounds or it's not gonna go how you want it to 😭

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

returns the name of the camera driver at the requested index, or NULL if an invalid index was specified. so if you get NULL back... yeah that index was not it, fr fr 💀

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

it is safe to call this function from any thread. yes, ANY thread. she's for everybody, she doesn't play favorites 💖

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0. vintage but make it fresh ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• SDL_GetNumCameraDrivers(3) — go read this one too, she's the one who tells you how many drivers there even are, iykyk 🦋

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not me being obsessed with a function whose entire personality is "return a string" 😭 but honestly? queen behavior. periodt 💅

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okay that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Simple Directmedia Layer, SDL 3.4.18, and the date/vibe check was SDL_GetCameraDriver(3) — love you, go enumerate some drivers responsibly 🍓💜🧚