SDL_GetSensorNameForID(3)

💖 SDL_GetSensorNameForID 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL_GetSensorNameForID page, part of the SDL3 FUNCTIONS crew 🫶 this is the one that tells you what a sensor is actually called, so let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_GetSensorNameForID — get the implementation dependent name of a sensor 💅

like, the name your specific SDL build decided to give it, not some universal name, iykyk

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_sensor.h>

const char * SDL_GetSensorNameForID(SDL_SensorID instance_id);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the way that you can literally call this before any sensors are opened?? iconic. no setup era required, no opening, no nothing. just vibes and an ID 😌

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• instance_id — the sensor instance ID 🍓 that's the lil identifier you're handing over so SDL knows which sensor you're gossiping about

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

it returns the sensor name 🎉 ...or NULL if instance_id is not valid 💀 so like, if you get nothing back, check your ID bestie, that's the vibe check failing fr fr

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0 👑 so if you're on anything older, it's giving... not yet, sorry 🧚

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lowkey reminder: instance_id has to be a real one, otherwise you get that NULL and you'll be sitting there like 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it 💅

sign-off time: this lil masterpiece comes to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, rockin' version SDL 3.4.18 ✨ and yes the manual page itself is named SDL_GetSensorNameForID(3) 🎀 stay slaying, go read some sensors 💖🦋🌸