PS_SHADING_PATTERN(3)

💖 PS_shading_pattern(3) — from the Library Functions Manual 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about the glow-up of patterns ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

PS_shading_pattern — bestie, it creates a shading pattern. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pslib.h>

int PS_shading_pattern(PSDoc *psdoc, int shading, const char *optlist)

like. three args. we love a low-maintenance function fr fr 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this function makes a very special little guy: a pattern, but make it a shading pattern. it's a whole special type of pattern, not like the regular ones.

here's the tea ☕ — shading patterns can be used exactly like regular patterns, no cap. the difference? they're made out of a given shading that you already created earlier with PS_shading(3). so like, you gotta do that step first, bestie. it's giving prerequisites. it's giving "you can't skip the tutorial level" 😭

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

it hands you back the identifier of the pattern — yay! 🎉 or it returns zero if something went wrong, which is the error vibe. sad. tragic. we don't claim it.

and the identifier? it's a positive number. so if you get a zero back, that's not a pattern, that's a cry for help 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the squad, the friend group, the ones you should also be reading:

• PS_shading(3)
• PS_begin_pattern(3)
• PS_end_pattern(3)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx — thank you for your service, king 👑

sign-off: this whole thing lives in the Library Functions Manual and answers to the name PS_SHADING_PATTERN(3), so if you ever need to find it again, that's where she'll be 💖 go make something pretty with your shadings, bestie, and remember: zero means error, positive means slay ✨🌸🦋