How to get joypad axis/button string names?

lukaspaver

I'm setting up Keybind features, and for getting the keyboard key codes there is a function. This is a quick example what is looks like in my code to get my point across:

var input_event: InputEvent
var keycode_string: String = OS.get_keycode_string(input_event.keycode)
# This will print something like "Space", or "W" or "A" or "Escape", etc.
print(keycode_string)

Now is there also a way to get the keycode string of a InputEventJoypadButton and InputEventJoypadMotion?
So that it prints something like "D-Pad Up", or "Button A", etc.
Because I looked up online and didn't find anything similar to this. There is not function like "OS.get_joypad_string(input_event.keycode)"...
Thanks.
Edits:
I'm now seeing that something like that has been removed. I think this is what I was looking for, but now it's gone... https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/43591
This is a proposal to bring it back I think: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/6930

Has this really been removed now, or is there a feature like this?

kuligs2

lukaspaver hmm.. well as some comments say the button layout is not standardized so thats why its not available.

Not sure.. can you not have this feature? What is the use case for this?

Maybe you could create profiles for multiple controllers using this https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2785

Toxe

lukaspaver Hmm, considering that there are different controller layouts I'd say it's probably best to identify the controller brand/layout and then provide your own button names. Which wouldn't be a big issue because there are only about two dozen buttons after all.

Godot uses very generic button names but those shouldn't be shown to the end user. If I use a Playstation controller I expect to see the proper names like R1/R2/R3, Circle, Square (or even better: icons) etc. and if you use a Nintendo controller you need to be aware to swap A/B and X/Y.

Another option might be to check if SDL3 has a function that does what you need. I'd say chances are pretty good that they already provide exactly this, but I didn't check.

xyz

lukaspaver Download SDL gamecontrollerdb.txt. It's basically a simple CSV file. Read it in and build a dictionary of dictionaries of button mappings. Use Input.get_joy_name() to obtain the name of the controller and use it as a key to index the dictionary you've built.

lukaspaver

This is very late but thanks for the responses. I guess I will just provide generic button icons... It's for a setting menu to show which button you have rebinded to a input.