al_get_joystick_type(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is al_get_joystick_type(3), straight out of the Library Functions Manual, and it’s giving Allegro 5 API realness, no cap.

• al_get_joystick_type — Allegro 5 API

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

this is the exact shape of it, bestie:

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_TYPE al_get_joystick_type(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this function returns the joystick type. that’s the whole vibe. 💖

if the type is ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_TYPE_GAMEPAD, then you can use ALLEGRO_GAMEPAD_BUTTON(3) and ALLEGRO_GAMEPAD_STICK(3) to interpret the button/stick events and states more easily. iconic, honestly.

joystick types will typically be unknown unless al_set_joystick_mappings(3) is called first. so like… call that first if you want the type to actually mean something, iykyk. 🫶

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🎀 SINCE 🎀

5.2.11 — that’s when it showed up, periodt. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_set_joystick_mappings(3)
• ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_TYPE(3)

⚠️ [Unstable API]: New API.

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signed off by the Allegro reference manual — that’s the source/version footer energy — and the date isn’t shown in this copy, so no cap, that’s all she wrote for al_get_joystick_type(3). 💖🫶✨