SDL_GetVideoDriver(3)

SDL_GetVideoDriver3

Get the name of a built in video driver.

Usage

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

const char * SDL_GetVideoDriver(int index);

Header file

Defined in SDL3/SDL_video.h

Overview

The video drivers are presented in the order in which they are normally checked during initialization.

The names of drivers are all simple, low-ASCII identifiers, like "cocoa", "x11" or "windows". These never have Unicode characters, and are not meant to be proper names.

Function parameters

index

the index of a video driver.

Return value

Returns the name of the video driver with the given index .

Thread safety

This function should only be called on the main thread.

Availability

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

From libsdl3-doc 3.2.10+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.