al_get_joystick_guid(3)

💖 NAME 💖

al_get_joystick_guid — Allegro 5 API

okay bestie, you’re reading al_get_joystick_guid(3) from the Library Functions Manual, and yes she’s here to help you tell joystick hardware apart ✨🎮

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_GUID al_get_joystick_guid(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This function returns the joystick GUID, which you can use to distinguish joystick hardware 👑🎮

But plot twist, bestie: despite the name, these GUIDs do not actually need to be truly unique, because of the limitations of the system that computes them 😭💅

And when the GUID is unknown, it can be all zeros. Literally all zeros. Iconic in a mysterious way 🫶

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🎀 SINCE 🎀

5.2.11

she’s been around since then, no cap ⭐

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_GUID(3)

[Unstable API]: New API. new API energy, handle with the appropriate amount of main-character awareness 💀✨

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source/version: Allegro reference manual; date: not listed on the page, so we’re leaving it as a cute little mystery 🕵️‍♀️🎀 bye bestie, go check those joystick GUIDs 💜