SDL_SetJoystickPlayerIndex(3)

💖 SDL_SetJoystickPlayerIndex(3) 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, and today's main character is SDL_SetJoystickPlayerIndex — the lil function that tells everyone which player this joystick belongs to 🎮✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_SetJoystickPlayerIndex — set the player index of an opened joystick. yes bestie, that's literally it, and it's lowkey iconic 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_joystick.h>

bool SDL_SetJoystickPlayerIndex(SDL_Joystick *joystick, int player_index);

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🦋 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🦋

• joystick — the SDL_Joystick you got from SDL_OpenJoystick(). like, the actual controller you already opened, not a random one, okay? 🙈
• player_index — the player index you wanna assign to this joystick, or -1 to clear the player index and turn off player LEDs. so -1 is giving "no player, lights off, going to sleep" energy 💤

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

Returns true on success or false on failure — and if it's a fail, call SDL_GetError() for more info. no cap, always check your errors, bestie 😭

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🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

It is safe to call this function from any thread. go off, multithreaded queen 👑

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older… girl, upgrade 💀

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• SDL_GetJoystickPlayerIndex(3) — the other half of the duo, the getter to this setter 🫶

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 this lil slice of SDL3 FUNCTIONS came to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 — shoutout to the SDL girlies keeping our controllers cute and our player LEDs correct, ily, bye bestie ⭐🌸