Is hotplugging possible in BGE?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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I’ve just tried to unplug a gamepad while playing, and it caused an UnhandledExceptionFilter when bge.logic.joysticks is polled. This is pretty fair enough, but I wonder if there’s a way to handle this sort of behavior without a fatal failure.

Is there a proper way to handle users plugging and unplugging controllers during gameplay?

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Because you get a UnhandledExceptionFilter. It sounds like unplugging the gamepad throws an exception you could handle.

To do that you’d need to add some python to that exception, https://wiki.python.org/moin/HandlingExceptions

That said, I don’t think there is a way to deal with that in in the Logic Editor, which would be very useful.

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Hi,

with new SDL2 it is possible. I’m currently implementing in the BGE. Maybe, in the next weeks/month will be available. (see https://developer.blender.org/D1484)

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I can catch that exception, yeah; but I can’t then do a sweep of the available ports to recheck for controllers~

Beautiful! I heard about SDL supporting that, a while ago, and was hoping for some progress on implementing it within the BGE. Thanks!