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Bug 5257

Summary: SDL_JoystickGetHat Never Reports LEFTDOWN
Product: SDL Reporter: gmesmer
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED ENDOFLIFE QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.15   
Hardware: ARM   
OS: Linux   

Description gmesmer 2020-08-14 17:29:19 UTC 
Whenever polling SDL_JoystickGetHat, all inputs can be seen (numbers 0 to 9) except LEFTDOWN (number 5). When visibly holding LEFTDOWN on Hat 1, calling SDL_JoystickGetHat reports eiter down (1) or left (2) and cycles between these two on a repeatable basis. The controller is sending those values over as seen in other libraries (html based applications, sdl2, etc). 

Using the alterative SDL_PollEvent with SDL_JOYHATMOTION does report LEFTDOWN so there is an issue with the function SDL_JoystickGetHat.
Comment 1 gmesmer 2020-08-14 18:04:24 UTC 
new info, actually down is (4) and left is (8) while LEFTDOWN reports as (12121212 repeated)
Comment 2 gmesmer 2020-08-14 18:11:08 UTC 
Actually the LEFTDOWN reports as 12 (twelve) instead of 5
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2020-12-09 14:47:53 UTC 
What controller and version of OS are you using?
Comment 4 gmesmer 2021-01-08 06:02:29 UTC 
(In reply to Sam Lantinga from comment #3)
> What controller and version of OS are you using?

this is using a nintendo switch pro controller (though it can be replicated on other controllers in my testing)

ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS arm64
should be using sdl1.2 from the latest apt package provided
Comment 5 Sam Lantinga 2021-01-08 07:00:04 UTC 
SDL 1.2 is no longer supported. Please let me know if you see this with SDL 2.0.