joystick:getGamepadMapping(buttonName) always returns nil

[raidho36]

There's no reason it shouldn't work - it is a gamepad. It's just there's no stock mapping for it.

[slime]

love.gamepadpressed and friends don't work without a mapping between the joystick button and axis indices and the gamepad control scheme. Joystick:getGamepadMapping is supposed to retrieve that mapping, but it isn't happening in this case even though the mapping exists.

[raidho36]

For what I can tell, SDL_GameControllerMappingForGUID fails to return mapping string, presumably due to GUID from SDL_JoystickGetGUIDFromString being invalid - that function will produce GUID from any input but if it wasn't a valid joystick GUID then it won't be useful, as per docs.

[sandygk]

can anyone confirm if getGamepadMapping() works with other controllers? it doesn't seem to work with Xbox controllers

[sandygk]

OK, so, what to do now?

[raidho36]

You can just not use it. All other gamepad functionality works fine.

[slime]

can anyone confirm if getGamepadMapping() works with other controllers? it doesn't seem to work with Xbox controllers

It works when I use my 360 controller in macOS. I suspect this is a bug in how SDL handles xinput controllers on Windows/Linux (in macOS there's no xinput).

I may be able to make getGamepadMapping use an alternative API in SDL to work around the issue, if it doesn't get fixed in SDL itself. We'll see.

[sandygk]

that would be great

[raidho36]

I don't think it's a bug in the way SDL handles controllers (mine does works if you use *Gamepad functions), it's the function that should return mapping by GUID that may be bugged. Or the function that returns GUID is bugged - that's a possibility as well.

[sandygk]

I created an issue for this bug

https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issues/ ... buttonname