al_get_joystick_active(3)

✨ al_get_joystick_active(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to this lil corner of the Allegro reference manual — Allegro 5 API edition 🎀 this page is literally about checking whether a joystick handle is out here being active.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

• al_get_joystick_active — Allegro 5 API

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_get_joystick_active(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this one returns if the joystick handle is “active” — i.e. in the current configuration, the handle represents some physical device plugged into the system. no cap, that's the whole vibe check 🔥

al_get_joystick(3) returns active handles. and after reconfiguration, active handles may become inactive, and vice versa — the plot can absolutely flip 😭💅

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• al_reconfigure_joysticks(3)

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