Retrieving joystick name with win32 api

Question

Hi, I have a joystick plugged in. It has a name string "My 50cent Joystick" that shows up if I go to Game Controllers under the Control Panel on Vista. I want to retrieve this string programmatically. After some research I found joyGetDevCaps that can retrieve a lot of information except the name string. Under szPname I get "Microsoft Pc Joystick driver" and under some information. Under szOEMVxD array i get what looks like "pc joystick driver" surrounded by random characters. How do I get the name that shows up under the control panel?

Answer 1

Hmm...

Perhaps try enumerating the joysticks on the system. The DIDEVICEINSTANCE that gets passed to your callback function might have the string you're looking for in its tszInstanceName or tszProductName fields.