| Microsoft DirectX 8.1 (Visual Basic) | 
Retrieves the state of the device's force-feedback system.
object.GetForceFeedbackState() As CONST_DIGFFSFLAGS
Returns flags from the CONST_DIGFFSFLAGS enumeration that describe the current state of the device's force-feedback system.
Applications should ignore any flags that are not currently defined.
If the method fails, an error is raised and Err.Number may be one of the following error codes.
| DIERR_INPUTLOST | 
| DIERR_INVALIDPARAM | 
| DIERR_NOTEXCLUSIVEACQUIRED | 
| DIERR_NOTINITIALIZED | 
| DIERR_UNSUPPORTED | 
The device must be acquired at the exclusive cooperative level for this method to succeed.