SDL_JoystickGetHat(3)

✨ SDL_JoystickGetHat(3) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the SDL API Reference 💖 you're here because you wanna know what a joystick hat is doing right this second, and honestly? valid. iconic. let's go 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_JoystickGetHat</p> — get the current state of a joystick hat 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include "SDL.h"

Uint8 SDL_JoystickGetHat(SDL_Joystick *joystick, int hat);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

SDL_JoystickGetHat returns the current state of the given hat on the given joystick. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it a joystick, you hand it a hat, it hands you back the tea ☕✨

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

the current state comes back to you as a Uint8, and here's the part where it gets fruity — it's defined as an OR'd combination of one or more of these bad boys:

• SDL_HAT_CENTERED
• SDL_HAT_UP
• SDL_HAT_RIGHT
• SDL_HAT_DOWN
• SDL_HAT_LEFT
• SDL_HAT_RIGHTUP
• SDL_HAT_RIGHTDOWN
• SDL_HAT_LEFTUP
• SDL_HAT_LEFTDOWN

fr fr, "one or more" — they get OR'd together, so don't be out here expecting a single lonely value 💀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• SDL_JoystickNumHats

and that's the whole page, no cap 💜 this lil slice of the SDL manual is dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00, brought to you by SDL, and yes she's been serving the same energy since 2001 and she ATE 🍓✨ mwah, go read your hat states bestie 🧚