Joystick Axis/Button names

support
1

Hi everyone,

I’m making a program in which I would like to include support for joysticks/controllers and since I’m using glfw for it I was looking to implement it with the methods provided by glfw. Every of the provided methods do work as intended (axis/button polling, joystick name) but it seems there is nothing to obtain Axis/Button names. When binding joystick buttons to actions in the settings screen, I’m searching for a way to obtain a name for the pressed button in order to display it to the user (instead of displaying button 1, button 2…). Is there any way to do this with glfw?

Thanks

2

There’s no direct method for doing this. You could get the joystick name and then use that to determine the controller type and use a table similar to this one for Xbox 360 controller, or let users name their buttons. The Xbox 360 controller names are set here for example.

This has always been a tricky issue in PC development - I’m not aware of a general approach to solving this. XInput on PC does specify the names of inputs but that’s only one of many APIs GLFW sits on.

Note: for reference see the documentation for Joystick/controllers.

3

Thanks for the fast reply!

I see. The “xbox 360 controller names” page was helpful, I guess I can use button names for xbox360 controllers and indexes for the rest of controllers.