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Get the device type of the given pen.

Many platforms do not supply this information, so an app must always be prepared to get an SDL_PEN_DEVICE_TYPE_UNKNOWN result.

instance_id

the pen instance ID.

Returns

the device type of the given pen, or SDL_PEN_DEVICE_TYPE_INVALID on failure; call SDL_GetError() for more information.

Thread safety

It is safe to call this function from any thread.

C declaration

SDL_GetPenDeviceType, defined at SDL3/SDL_pen.h 189:47

Since: 3.4.0