love.joystick

Provides an interface to connected joysticks.

Types

Joystick Represents a physical joystick. 0.9.0

Functions

love.joystick.close Closes a joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getAxes Returns the position of each axis. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getAxis Returns the direction of the axis. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getBall Returns the change in ball position. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getHat Returns the direction of a hat. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getJoystickCount Gets the number of connected joysticks. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getJoysticks Gets a list of connected Joysticks. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getName Returns the name of a joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getNumAxes Returns the number of axes on the joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getNumBalls Returns the number of balls on the joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getNumButtons Returns the number of buttons on the joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getNumHats Returns the number of hats on the joystick. 0.9.0
love.joystick.getNumJoysticks Returns how many joysticks are available. 0.9.0
love.joystick.isDown Checks if a button on a joystick is pressed. 0.9.0
love.joystick.isOpen Checks if the joystick is open. 0.9.0
love.joystick.loadGamepadMappings Loads a gamepad mappings string or file created with love.joystick.saveGamepadMappings. 0.9.2
love.joystick.open Opens up a joystick to be used. 0.9.0
love.joystick.saveGamepadMappings Saves the virtual gamepad mappings of all recently-used Joysticks that are recognized as gamepads. 0.9.2
love.joystick.setGamepadMapping Binds a virtual gamepad input to a button, axis or hat. 0.9.2

Enums

GamepadAxis Virtual gamepad axes. 0.9.0
GamepadButton Virtual gamepad buttons. 0.9.0
JoystickHat Joystick hat positions.
JoystickInputType Types of Joystick inputs. 0.9.0

See Also


love.joystick.getJoystickCount

love.joystick.getJoystickCount Available since LÖVE 0.9.0 It has been renamed from

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love.joystick.loadGamepadMappings

love.joystick.loadGamepadMappings Available since LÖVE 0.9.2 This function is not supported in earlier versions. Loads a gamepad mappings string

2017-03-21 15:48:54
love.joystick.getNumButtons

love.joystick.getNumButtons Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 It has been renamed to

2017-03-21 15:48:50
love.joystick.getJoysticks

love.joystick.getJoysticks Available since LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in earlier versions. Gets a list of connected Joysticks

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love.joystick.getAxes

love.joystick.getAxes Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 It has been moved to

2017-03-21 15:48:43
love.joystick.setGamepadMapping

love.joystick.setGamepadMapping Available since LÖVE 0.9.2 This function is not supported in earlier versions. Due to a bug, any

2017-03-21 15:48:57
love.joystick.getNumBalls

love.joystick.getNumBalls Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in that and later versions. Returns the number of balls

2017-03-21 15:48:50
love.joystick.open

love.joystick.open Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in that and later versions. Opens up a joystick to be used, i.e. makes

2017-03-21 15:48:55
love.joystick.isDown

love.joystick.isDown Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 It has been moved to

2017-03-21 15:48:53