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

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.

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.

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

OK, so, what to do now?

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

sandygk wrote: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.

that would be great

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.

I created an issue for this bug

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