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Adventures into the cursed land of c++ #NaN.
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <Xinput.h>
#pragma comment (lib, "xinput.lib")
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello World!\n";
DWORD id = 0;
XINPUT_STATE state;
// First, a little sanity check: Gotta make sure we can see the controller
if (XInputGetState(id, &state) != ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
printf("Controller %d doesn't exist\n", id);
return 1;
}
// Now I just want to play around with the audio functionality. This is the only
// example available that hasn't been plastered with deprecation warnings.
// https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/xinput/getting-started-with-xinput#getting-audio-device-identifiers
WCHAR renderId[256] = { 0 };
WCHAR captureId[256] = { 0 };
UINT rcount = 256;
UINT ccount = 256;
// Annoyingly, it doesn't seem like anything is ending up in those buffers, so
// let's check out the return value.
DWORD result = XInputGetAudioDeviceIds(id, renderId, &rcount, captureId, &ccount);
printf("%d", result); // => 1167 (ERROR_DEVICE_NOT_CONNECTED)
// - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/xinput/nf-xinput-xinputgetaudiodeviceids#return-value
// So if the documentation is to be trusted, this explicitly means the controller isn't
// physically connected. After we *just* polled it. Right.
}
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