al_get_joystick_name(3)

✨ NAME ✨

al_get_joystick_name — Allegro 5 API

okay so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual corner of the Allegro 5 API. This page is literally about al_get_joystick_name, and it’s giving “small function, main character energy” 🎮💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

const char *al_get_joystick_name(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what does it actually do? It returns the name of the given joystick. That’s it, bestie. You pass in the joystick — ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy — and it hands you back the joystick’s name as a const char *. No extra side quests, no weird little bonuses, just the name. ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

if you want more joystick lore, these are the adjacent pages, iykyk:

• al_get_joystick_stick_name(3)
• al_get_joystick_axis_name(3)
• al_get_joystick_button_name(3)

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that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one comes from the Allegro reference manual — source/version vibes — and the footer has literally no date on it, so i’m not inventing one. periodt 💖