SDL_SysWMEvent(3)

💖 SDL_SysWMEvent 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL API Reference ✨ this one's about SDL_SysWMEvent(3) and honestly? it's giving behind-the-scenes window manager tea 🫖

✨ NAME ✨

SDL_SysWMEvent — the platform-dependent window manager event 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, the system window manager event is carrying a pointer to system-specific info about all those window manager events that nobody really knows what to do with 🦋

if you turn this event ON using SDL_EventState(), it's gonna get generated every single time unhandled events come in from the window manager. no cap. and like — that's actually so useful, because you can use it to do stuff like implement cut-and-paste in your application 👑

here's the struct, and yes she's tiny but she's iconic:

typedef struct {
         Uint8 type;   /* Always SDL_SysWM */
} SDL_SysWMEvent;

now — if you wanna get that system-specific info about the window manager, here's the vibe: you fill the version member of a SDL_SysWMinfo structure (all the deets live in SDL_syswm.h, which you must include, periodt) using the SDL_VERSION() macro that's chilling in SDL_version.h. then you pass it to this function:

int SDL_GetWMInfo(SDL_SysWMinfo *info);

slay. that's the whole thing 🌈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• SDL_EventState

okay that's a wrap, gorgeous 💜 this page was brought to you by SDL, dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00 — yeah, a whole vintage queen from 2001, and she still eats 🎀 bye bestie, go write some cut-and-paste code 💖✨