SDL_JoystickEventState(3)

💖 SDL_JoystickEventState(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL API Reference ✨ this one lives in the SDL manual, section 3, and it's literally the on/off switch for joystick event polling 🎮🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_JoystickEventState — turn joystick event polling on or off 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include "SDL.h"

int SDL_JoystickEventState(int state);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, this function is the girl when it comes to enabling or disabling joystick event processing 🫶

when joystick event processing is disabled, no events are gonna come find you — you have to go get them yourself. that means you update the joystick states with SDL_JoystickUpdate and read the joystick info manually, like a main character doing her own detective work 🔍✨

and state? it's one of three iconic options:

• SDL_QUERY — ask, don't tell 💬
• SDL_ENABLE — yes ma'am, turn it on 👑
• SDL_IGNORE — nope, we're off duty 🙈

Note: Joystick event handling is prefered (that's their spelling, not mine, and we respect the icon's choices 💀💖)

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• if state is SDL_QUERY, you get the current state back 🎁
• otherwise, you get the new processing state back ✨

either way bestie, you're getting a return value, no crumbs 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• SDL Joystick Functions
• SDL_JoystickUpdate
• SDL_JoyAxisEvent
• SDL_JoyBallEvent
• SDL_JoyButtonEvent
• SDL_JoyHatEvent

and that's the whole vibe 💜 this page came from the SDL manual, dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 22:59 — yes, she's an elder icon and she still ate 🍓 go forth and poll your joysticks, ily, bye 👑🎀🦋