al_get_num_joysticks(3alleg5)

💖 al_get_num_joysticks 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Allegro reference manual — it's section 3alleg5, the whole Allegro 5 API vibe ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

al_get_num_joysticks — the Allegro 5 API function that tells you how many controllers are in the building 🎮

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

int al_get_num_joysticks(void)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this one hands you back the number of joysticks that are currently on the system (or potentially on the system, iykyk).

And here's the tea: that number is not locked in. It can literally change after you call al_reconfigure_joysticks(3alleg5) — because that's the whole point, it's there to support hotplugging. Plug a controller in mid-game, unplug it, whatever, the count can shift. Slay. 💅

If there's no joystick driver installed, it returns 0. That's it. Zero. Nothing. Not a single joystick to be found. 😭

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_get_joystick(3alleg5)
• al_get_joystick_active(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was the Allegro reference manual dropping its al_get_num_joysticks(3alleg5) knowledge, version-and-date energy included, mwah 💋 go count some controllers, you got this 💜🎀