Description

With this function you can retrieve the GUID for the gamepad connected to the given slot index. You supply the gamepad slot to check (from 0 - 11), and the function will return one of the following strings:

• "none" if no GUID is available or no gamepad is connected
• "device index out of range" if the gamepad slot index is out of range
• The GUID string, something like "050000005e040000fd020000ffff3f00", if the slot has a gamepad assigned and can get the GUID for it

This function would usually be used in conjunction with gamepad_get_description() to generate part of the SDL string required for remapping controllers on Windows, Android and macOS.

Syntax:

gamepad_get_guid(index);

Returns:

String

Example:

var _guid = gamepad_get_guid(global.PadIndex);
var _desc = gamepad_get_description(global.PadIndex);
global.GamepadID = _guid + "," + _desc;

The above code gets the GUID and name description strings, then concatenates them and stores the final string in a global variable for suture reference.