---
title: TCDirectionPad
framework: Touch Controller
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
platforms: [iOS 26.0+, iPadOS 26.0+, Mac Catalyst 26.0+]
path: touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad
---

# TCDirectionPad

An object that represents a direction pad.

## Declaration

```swift
class TCDirectionPad
```

## Overview

Overview You can configure this object to behave as either a composite direction pad (mirrored by a GCControllerDirectionPad on the associated GCController instance) or as four separate buttons.

## Topics

### Inspecting the direction pad

- [compositeLabel](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/compositelabel.md)
- [downContents](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/downcontents.md)
- [downLabel](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/downlabel.md)
- [highlightDuration](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/highlightduration.md)
- [inputIsMutuallyExclusive](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/inputismutuallyexclusive.md)
- [isDigital](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/isdigital.md)
- [isRadial](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/isradial.md)
- [leftContents](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/leftcontents.md)
- [leftLabel](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/leftlabel.md)
- [rightContents](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/rightcontents.md)
- [rightLabel](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/rightlabel.md)
- [upContents](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/upcontents.md)
- [upLabel](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/uplabel.md)

### Getting the collider shape

- [colliderShape](touchcontroller/tcdirectionpad/collidershape.md)
- [TCColliderShape](touchcontroller/tccollidershape.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [TCControl](touchcontroller/tccontrol.md)
- [TCControlLayout](touchcontroller/tccontrollayout.md)

## See Also

### Controls

- [TCControl](touchcontroller/tccontrol.md)
- [TCButton](touchcontroller/tcbutton.md)
- [TCSwitch](touchcontroller/tcswitch.md)
- [TCThumbstick](touchcontroller/tcthumbstick.md)
- [TCThrottle](touchcontroller/tcthrottle.md)
- [TCTouchpad](touchcontroller/tctouchpad.md)