SDL_GetDisplayName(3)

💖 SDL_GetDisplayName 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL_GetDisplayName(3) page — that's the SDL3 functions corner of the manual, and this one is genuinely so useful it's not even funny. it's giving "who even am i talking to" but for monitors. 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetDisplayName — grab the name of a display, in UTF-8 encoding, no cap. 🖥️💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <SDL3/SDL_video.h>

const char * SDL_GetDisplayName(SDL_DisplayID displayID);

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• displayID — the instance ID of the display you wanna interrogate. that's the one you're asking "hey girl, what's your name?" 🥰

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

it hands you back the name of a display. and if things go sideways? you get NULL. 😭 in that case, call SDL_GetError() for more information — she'll tell you what went wrong, fr fr.

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🔥 THREAD SAFETY 🔥

main thread only, bestie. do not try to call this from some random worker thread, that's not the vibe. 🚫🧵

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this one's been around since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on anything older... girl. upgrade. ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• SDL_GetDisplays(3) — go get yourself the list first, then come back here and name them all. iconic duo behavior, honestly. 🫶

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page. go forth and name your displays, you absolute main character.

this lil masterpiece lives in the Simple Directmedia Layer manual, SDL 3.4.18 era — so if you're reading this, hi, you're exactly where you're supposed to be. 🎀✨