SDL_SetWindowProgressState(3)

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_SetWindowProgressState — bestie, this one sets the state of the progress bar for the given window's taskbar icon 💅

Like. Your app is doing a Thing. And you want the lil taskbar icon to say that. This is the function that says it. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <SDL3/SDL_video.h>

bool SDL_SetWindowProgressState(SDL_Window *window, SDL_ProgressState state);

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💖 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 💖

• window — the window whose progress state is to be modified. Yes, this window, the one you're pointing at. 🫶
• state — the progress state. And listen, super important: SDL_PROGRESS_STATE_NONE stops displaying the progress bar. Poof. Gone. No bar. 🫥

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

Returns true on success or false on failure — no in-between, it's giving binary icon behaviour honestly 😭

If it fails, call SDL_GetError() for more information. She will tell you what went wrong. Always ask her. 🙈

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🧚 THREAD SAFETY 🧚

This function should only be called on the main thread.

Not me calling this from a worker thread 💀 do NOT do that. Main thread only. Periodt. 👑

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

This function is available since SDL 3.4.0. So if you're on something older, that's a you problem bestie, go update 🔥

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okay that's literally it, go make your taskbar icon glow up ✨🦋💜

Signed, sealed, delivered by the Simple Directmedia Layer girlies — this is SDL 3.4.18 energy, mwah 💋🎀