NAME¶

SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver - Get the name of the currently initialized video driver.

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <SDL3/SDL_video.h>

const char * SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver(void);

DESCRIPTION¶

The names of drivers are all simple, low-ASCII identifiers, like "cocoa", "x11" or "windows". These never have Unicode characters, and are not meant to be proper names.

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns the name of the current video driver or NULL if no driver has been initialized.

THREAD SAFETY¶

This function should only be called on the main thread.

AVAILABILITY¶

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

SEE ALSO¶

SDL_GetNumVideoDrivers(3), SDL_GetVideoDriver(3)