al_get_joystick_guid(3alleg5)

📦 version 5.2.11.3, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 al_get_joystick_guid — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro reference manual, this one's all about al_get_joystick_guid(3alleg5) and it's literally so simple you're gonna slay it ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_GUID al_get_joystick_guid(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

like, that's the whole vibe. include the header, call the function, get a GUID back. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does this actually do? it returns the joystick GUID, which you can use to tell different joystick hardware apart. it's giving "who dis" but for controllers 🎮

⚠️ okay but real talk bestie, despite the name, these GUIDs do not actually have to be unique — that's because of the limitations of the system that computes them. not me finding out they're lowkey lying in the function name 😭

and plot twist: this can be all zeros when it's unknown. so if you get a big ol' pile of zeroes, that's just the universe saying "idk her" 💀

✨ SINCE ✨

5.2.11

(yeah, it's a newer baby, she's fresh 🫶)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 [Unstable API]: New API. — so yeah, tread carefully, this one's still figuring herself out 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🎀 mwah! this lil writeup comes to you from the Allegro reference manual, covering al_get_joystick_guid(3alleg5) — go forth and distinguish those joysticks, ily, bye! 💖✨🌸🦋

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