GLUTFORCEJOYSTICKFUNC(3)

✨ GLUTFORCEJOYSTICKFUNC ✨

okay bestie so we're in the GLUTFORCEJOYSTICKFUNC(3) girlie — that's the manual page, section 3, and she lives in OpenGLUT - input 💖 so like, if you're poking at joysticks in OpenGLUT, this is your page. come sit with me.

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🌸 LIBRARY 🌸

OpenGLUT — specifically the input corner of it 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutForceJoystickFunc(void);

that's it. no args. no return value. she just does the thing 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea 🫖 — glutForceJoystickFunc() makes the OpenGLUT joystick code go poll your joystick(s) right this second, and then it calls your joystick callbacks with whatever it found. no waiting around for the next scheduled poll, we're doing it NOW.

and the part that's actually iconic? the whole operation — including the callbacks — is done and dusted before glutForceJoystickFunc() even returns. so it's synchronous, bestie. by the time control comes back to you, the polling happened, the callbacks fired, the whole thing is handled. periodt ✨

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😭 BUGS 😭

not me having to tell you this 🙈 — the original WINCE import used a #if to just... turn this function off. that is wrong, no cap. 💀

the proper way to handle the joystick code is to generate "null" events instead of like, yanking the function out of existence. so the fix needs to happen in og_joystick.c, not here. like, wrong file, wrong place, wrong vibe. do not patch it on this page, go fix it at the source, iykyk 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glutJoystickFunc(3) — the main character you'll wanna meet next 💜

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🦋 and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's UNDATED and comes to you from UNTITLED() — yeah the source/version line is literally just sitting there being mysterious, we love a lowkey legend 💅 mwah, go force some joystick polls 🌈💖