SDL_GetGamepadName(3)

💖 SDL_GetGamepadName 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, where we learn the vibes of an opened gamepad. yes literally, its name. iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetGamepadName — get the implementation-dependent name for an opened gamepad. 🎮

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_gamepad.h>

const char * SDL_GetGamepadName(SDL_Gamepad *gamepad);

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✨ FUNCTION PARAMETERS ✨

• gamepad — a gamepad identifier that was previously returned by SDL_OpenGamepad(). not just any random pointer, bestie, it has to be one of those. 🙈

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

it returns the implementation dependent name for the gamepad 🫶

or NULL if there's no name, or if the identifier you passed is invalid. invalid id = NULL, no cap. 💀

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✨ THREAD SAFETY ✨

good news, queen 👑 — it is safe to call this function from any thread. go wild, spawn them all, she doesn't care. ✨

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

this function has been available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older… sorry bestie 😭

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• SDL_GetGamepadNameForID(3) — the cousin who does it by ID instead 💅

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and that's the whole page, mwah. 🎀 this lil masterpiece comes to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 — stay slaying, and may all your gamepads have names. 🦋🌸💜