SDL_GetRendererName(3)

💖 SDL_GetRendererName(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL_GetRendererName page, part of the SDL3 functions era ✨ literally the whole manual is called SDL_GetRendererName(3) and yes we're doing this 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_GetRendererName — get the name of a renderer. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_render.h>

const char * SDL_GetRendererName(SDL_Renderer *renderer);

like. one function. one parameter. no cap 💅

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• renderer — the rendering context. your little renderer guy. the main character in question 🦋

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

it hands you back the name of the selected renderer, or NULL if things went sideways 😭 — and when that happens you gotta call SDL_GetError() for more info, fr fr. NULL is the "not me crying in the club" of return values.

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🌈 THREAD SAFETY 🌈

it is safe to call this function from any thread. yes ANY thread. go feral, queen 👑✨

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this function has been available since SDL 3.2.0. if you're on anything older... babe. update. 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• SDL_CreateRenderer(3)
• SDL_CreateRendererWithProperties(3)

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓

kisses from the Simple Directmedia Layer girlies — this is SDL 3.4.18, dated with love, and the page is literally called SDL_GetRendererName(3) in case you forgot already 🙈 🎀💖✨