SDL_hid_get_...cturer_string(3)

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_hid_get_manufacturer_string — bestie, we're grabbing the Manufacturer String off a HID device 💖

It's an SDL3 function, so that's the manual family it lives in. Slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_hidapi.h>

int SDL_hid_get_manufacturer_string(SDL_hid_device *dev, wchar_t *string, size_t maxlen);

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

okay so here's the three things you gotta hand over, no cap:

• dev — a device handle that came back from SDL_hid_open(). like, you gotta already have the device open, we can't just vibe-check a random pointer 🫶
• string — a wide string buffer where the data gets dropped. this is where the manufacturer name goes, so make sure it's got room ✨
• maxlen — the length of that buffer, counted in multiples of wchar_t. yes bestie, multiples of wchar_t, not bytes 💅

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

Returns 0 on success, or a negative error code if it didn't work out 😭. When it fails, call SDL_GetError() for more info — that's where the tea is.

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🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

This function has been available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older, it's giving "not yet" 🙈

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lowkey reminder: this is the manufacturer string, not the product string or the serial number. don't mix them up, i'm begging 🧚

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this little legend comes to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 — mwah, love that for us 🌈⭐