SDL_GETGAMEPADCONNECTIONSTATE(3)

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetGamepadConnectionState — bestie, this is how you find out the connection state of a gamepad 💖

Like, is it plugged in? Wireless? Ghosted you entirely? This function knows.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_gamepad.h>

SDL_JoystickConnectionState SDL_GetGamepadConnectionState(SDL_Gamepad *gamepad);

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• gamepad — the gamepad object you wanna interrogate 👀 the one you're querying, the main character of this whole operation.

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🦋 RETURN VALUE 🦋

On success you get the connection state back, slay 💅 On failure you get SDL_JOYSTICK_CONNECTION_INVALID (rude, honestly 😭).

If it fails, call SDL_GetError() to get more info — that's your group chat receipts, bestie, go read them 📱

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

It is safe to call this function from any thread. No cap. Any thread, any time, it's giving totally chill 🧘‍♀️✨

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👑 AVAILABILITY 👑

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0. So if you're on something older, no function for you 🙈

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Simple Directmedia Layer came through with this one, and it's living in the SDL 3.4.18 era — so go forth, check those gamepads, and stay iconic 🫶🌈⭐

SDL_GetGamepadConnectionState(3) — periodt 💜