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Bug 1872

Summary: Full joystick name not returned, only first character of the name
Product: SDL Reporter: Anthony Walter <sysrpl>
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: fwddmovb
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows 7   

Description Anthony Walter 2013-05-28 14:55:21 UTC 
I have only 1 joystick to test this with but on Windows 7 64 bit when building a  32 bit application, SDL 2.0 (RC1) is not returning the entire joystick name.

My joystick is an official Microsoft Wireless Xbox 360 controller and string returned from SDL_JoystickName is the partial string "M" and not the full name.
Comment 1 fwddmovb 2013-06-28 12:54:44 UTC 
Are you sure the returned string are 8bit chars and not wide 16bit chars? Try the debugger and take a look at the data.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2013-07-12 02:24:24 UTC 
Can you build SDL and debug this on your end?  I wasn't able to reproduce this.  I got back a UTF-8 string that was the correct name of the joystick.

You are using the XInput code path in the SDL joystick driver, right?
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2013-10-18 06:19:50 UTC 
This was a problem with the mingw32 build.  Fixed!
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/1451063c8ecd