.TH joystick_close 3 "14 April 1998" "Svgalib 1.3.0" "Svgalib User Manual"
.SH NAME
joystick_close \- close a joystick
.SH SYNOPSIS

.B "#include <vgajoystick.h>"

.BI "void joystick_close(int " joydev );

.SH DESCRIPTION
closes the joystick
.I joydev
which was opened with
.BR joystick_init (3).

.IB joydev " = -1"
closes all currently open joystick devices. Note that any calibration data is lost if you
close a joystick.

.SH CAVEATS
This function is only available in ELF versions of svgalib. Due to backwards
compatibility issues it cannot be used with shared a.out libs.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR svgalib (7),
.BR vgagl (7),
.BR libvga.config (5),
.BR joytest (6),
.BR mjoytest (6),
.BR joystick_init (3),
.BR joystick_update (3),
.BR joystick_sethandler (3),
.BR joystick_setdefaulthandler (3),
.BR joystick_getnumaxes (3),
.BR joystick_getnumbuttons (3),
.BR joystick_getaxis (3),
.BR joystick_getbutton (3),
.BR joystick_button1 (3),
.BR joystick_getb1 (3),
.BR joystick_x (3),
.BR joystick_getx (3).

.SH AUTHOR

The svgalib joystick handler was mostly done by Daniel Engstr\\"om <daniel.engstrom@riksnett.no>.
Multiple joystick, VC switching support and code to glue it into svgalib by Michael Weller
<eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. Part of the code is based on code from C. Smith and
Vojtech Pavlik.