SDL.Input.GameController

A description of game controller that can be opened using openController. To retrieve a list of connected game controllers, use availableControllers.

Check if the given joystick is supported by the game controller interface.

See SDL_IsGameController for C documentation.

Create a ControllerDevice from a JoystickIndex. Returns Nothing if the JoystickIndex does not support the game controller interface.

Create a ControllerDevice from a JoystickIndex. Does not check whether the JoystickIndex supports the game controller interface.

Get the GameController associated with a JoystickID.

See SDL_GameControllerFromInstanceID for C documentation.

Enumerate all connected Controllers, retrieving a description of each.

Open a controller so that you can start receiving events from interaction with this controller.

See SDL_GameControllerOpen for C documentation.

Close a controller previously opened with openController.

See SDL_GameControllerClose for C documentation.

Check if a controller has been opened and is currently connected.

See SDL_GameControllerGetAttached for C documentation.

Get the instance ID of an opened controller. The instance ID is used to identify the controller in future SDL events.

See SDL_GameControllerInstanceID for C documentation.

Get the current mapping of a Game Controller.

See SDL_GameControllerMapping for C documentation.

Add support for controllers that SDL is unaware of or to cause an existing controller to have a different binding.

See SDL_GameControllerAddMapping for C documentation.

Use this function to load a set of Game Controller mappings from a file, filtered by the current SDL_GetPlatform(). A community sourced database of controllers is available here (on GitHub).

See SDL_GameControllerAddMappingsFromFile for C documentation.

Identifies a gamepad button.

Identifies the state of a controller button.

Get the current state of a button on a game controller.

See SDL_GameControllerGetButton for C documentation.

Get the current state of an axis control on a game controller.

See SDL_GameControllerGetAxis for C documentation.

Identifies whether the game controller was added, removed, or remapped.