joystick_close(3)

joystick_close3

Close a joystick

Usage

#include <vgajoystick.h>

void joystick_close(int joydev);

Overview

closes the joystick joydev which was opened with joystick_init(3).

joydev = -1 closes all currently open joystick devices. Note that any calibration data is lost if you close a joystick.

Caveats

This function is only available in ELF versions of svgalib. Due to backwards compatibility issues it cannot be used with shared a.out libs.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–7

Author

The svgalib joystick handler was mostly done by Daniel Engstr\"om <[email protected]>. Multiple joystick, VC switching support and code to glue it into svgalib by Michael Weller <[email protected]>. Part of the code is based on code from C. Smith and Vojtech Pavlik.

From libsvga1-dev 1:1.4.3-33 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.