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ShowJoyCPL

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Invokes the joystick control panel directly, using the passed window handle as the parent of the dialog box.

Syntax

VOID ShowJoyCPL(
         HWND hWnd
)

Parameters

  • hWnd
    Window handle of the parent dialog box.

Return Value

None.

Remarks

It is recommended that applications use IDirectInputDevice8::RunControlPanel instead of ShowJoyCPL.

The following typedef is provided to allow declaration and casting of an appropriately typed variable.

typedef void (WINAPI* LPFNSHOWJOYCPL)( HWND hWnd );

Example

ShowJoyCPL can be called using the function pointer returned by GetProcAddress, where hCPL is an HMODULE returned by LoadLibrary.

HMODULE hCPL;
LPFNSHOWJOYCPL pShowJoyCPL;
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.
.
hCPL = LoadLibrary(TEXT("joy.cpl")); 
pShowJoyCPL  = (LPFNSHOWJOYCPL)GetProcAddress(hCPL, TEXT("ShowJoyCPL"));

pShowJoyCPL(NULL);  //Invoke Joystick Control Panel

Requirements

Header: Declared in dinput.h.