SDL_GetGamepadMapping(3)

✨ SDL_GetGamepadMapping ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual 💖 this one's SDL_GetGamepadMapping(3) and she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_GetGamepadMapping — grab the current mapping of a gamepad. that's it, that's the girl 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <SDL3/SDL_gamepad.h>

char * SDL_GetGamepadMapping(SDL_Gamepad *gamepad);

look at her. short, sweet, returns a char *. iconic 🌈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the actual deets about what a mapping even is? those live over in SDL_AddGamepadMapping(), bestie. go read that one, this page is just the "gimme the current one" girlie 🫶

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• gamepad — the gamepad you want the current mapping for. like, which controller are we talking about, babe? 🎮

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

she hands you back a string holding the gamepad's mapping 💖 or, plot twist, NULL if there's no mapping available 😭 — in that case go call SDL_GetError() for more info, she'll tell you what went wrong.

🚨 bestie listen. that string is yours now. when you're done with it you must free it with SDL_free(). not freeing it = leak = not the main character energy we're going for 🙈

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

you can call this from any thread. no cap. multi-threaded slay 👑

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

she's been here since SDL 3.2.0 ✨ so if you're on something older... yeah no, she's not there yet 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• SDL_AddGamepadMapping(3)
• SDL_GetGamepadMappingForID(3)
• SDL_GetGamepadMappingForGUID(3)
• SDL_SetGamepadMapping(3)

go read the whole friend group, they all make sense together fr fr 🍓

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and that's the page, bestie!! this cutie comes to you straight from Simple Directmedia Layer, running SDL 3.4.18, dated right there in the footer like a lil timestamp on the group chat 📸 mwah, go map some gamepads 💅✨