SDL_GetJoystickName(3)

💖 SDL_GetJoystickName 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to SDL_GetJoystickName(3), one of the SDL3 FUNCTIONS ✨ — it's giving "who even IS this controller" energy and honestly? obsessed.

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetJoystickName — get the implementation dependent name of a joystick 🎮

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <SDL3/SDL_joystick.h>

const char * SDL_GetJoystickName(SDL_Joystick *joystick);

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🌸 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🌸

• joystick — the SDL_Joystick you got from SDL_OpenJoystick(). like, the one you already opened, girl. you can't just ask a stranger their name 💅

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

Returns the name of the selected joystick 🫶

But listen — if no name can be found, this function returns NULL. and then? you go call SDL_GetError() for more info, because bestie we do not suffer in silence 😭

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🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

It is safe to call this function from any thread. periodt. no notes, no drama, no mutexes needed 🔥

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0 — so if you're on anything older, it's a no from her, sorry babe 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• SDL_GetJoystickNameForID(3) — the sibling, the icon, the other way to ask 🎀

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not me hyping up a getter function but like... it's literally how you find out what your controller is called. main character energy fr fr 🙈

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mwah 💜 that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by the fine folks at Simple Directmedia Layer, SDL 3.4.18, and yes the date is on the original footer too, iykyk. go forth and name some joysticks 🦋✨