(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is the current stable version. SDL2 was the previous version!)

SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver

Get the name of the currently initialized video driver.

Header File

Syntax

const char * SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver(void);

Return Value

(const char *) Returns the name of the current video driver or NULL if no driver has been initialized.

Remarks

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.

Thread Safety

This function should only be called on the main thread.

Version

This function is available since SDL 3.1.3.