(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable 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 <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_THREAD "SDL_JOYSTICK_THREAD"

Remarks

The variable can be set to the following values:

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

This hint should be set before SDL is initialized.

Version

This hint is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints