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.saveGamepadMappings

love.joystick.saveGamepadMappings Available since LÖVE 0.9.2 This function is not supported in earlier versions. Saves the virtual gamepad mappings

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love.joystick.getAxis

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

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love.joystick.getName

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

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love.joystick.getNumJoysticks

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

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love.joystick.isOpen

love.joystick.isOpen Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in that and later versions. Checks if the joystick is open.

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love.joystick.close

love.joystick.close Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in that and later versions. Closes a joystick, i.e. stop using it for

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love.joystick.getNumAxes

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

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love.joystick.getBall

love.joystick.getBall Removed in LÖVE 0.9.0 This function is not supported in that and later versions. Returns the change in ball position.

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love.joystick.getHat

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

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love.joystick.getNumHats

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

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