(This is the legacy documentation for stable SDL2, the current stable version; SDL3 is the current development version.)

SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_THREAD

A variable controlling whether a separate thread should be used for handling joystick detection and raw input messages on Windows

Header File

Defined in SDL_hints.h

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_THREAD "SDL_JOYSTICK_THREAD"

Remarks

This variable can be set to the following values:

• "0": A separate thread is not used (the default)
• "1": A separate thread is used for handling raw input messages

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