IDirectInputDevice8::GetDeviceInfo

Obtains information about the device's identity.

HRESULT GetDeviceInfo(
  LPDIDEVICEINSTANCE pdidi
);

Parameters

pdidi

Address of a DIDEVICEINSTANCE structure to be filled with information about the device's identity. An application must initialize the structure's dwSize member before calling this method.

Return Values

If the method succeeds, the return value is DI_OK. If the method fails, the return value can be one of the following error values: DIERR_INVALIDPARAM, DIERR_NOTINITIALIZED, E_POINTER.

Remarks

For compatibility with DirectX 3, it is also valid to pass a DIDEVICEINSTANCE_DX3 structure with the dwSize member initialized to sizeof(DIDEVICEINSTANCE_DX3).

Requirements

Header: Declared in Dinput.h.