Joystick hot plug

[AWPStar]

Hello. I got a question. If my gamepad is plugged in and I run program I can detect its connection/disconnection.

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if GETJOYSTICK(n)=0 then 

But if I run program before I connect my gamepad, than I can't detect it.
I can use raw inputs but there's too much work to do. And we don't have some HID functions and structures to do this easily.

Is there a way to init gamepad on plug?

[misterc]

Is SDL2 event polling on added/removed handles an option? If you are OK using SDL2 it might work.

[AWPStar]

Is SDL2 event polling on added/removed handles an option? If you are OK using SDL2 it might work.

Thanks. It's very small project - I don't want to use any frameworks like SDL2.
For now I just capture events from raw inputs and show notification "Here's your gamepad, restart the game, bla-bla..." to player.