al_get_joystick_guid(3)

al_get_joystick_guid3

Allegro 5 api

Usage

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>
ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK_GUID al_get_joystick_guid(ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK *joy)

Overview

Returns the joystick GUID, that can be used to distinguish joysticks hardware. Despite the name, these do not need to be actually unique to do the limitations of the system that computes them. This can be all zeros when unknown.

Since

5.2.11

From allegro 5.2.11.3-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.