(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_HINT_XINPUT_ENABLED

A variable controlling whether XInput should be used for controller handling.

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_XINPUT_ENABLED "SDL_XINPUT_ENABLED"

Remarks

The variable can be set to the following values:

• "0": XInput is not enabled.
• "1": XInput is enabled. (default)

This hint should be set before SDL is initialized.

Version

This hint is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints