SDL_UnlockSurface(3)

💅 SDL_UnlockSurface — from the SDL3 FUNCTIONS girlies ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, where we talk about SDL_UnlockSurface 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_UnlockSurface — release a surface after you've been directly accessing the pixels. like, put it back, babe 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_surface.h>

void SDL_UnlockSurface(SDL_Surface *surface);

no return value, no drama, just vibes 🌈

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🎀 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🎀

• surface — the SDL_Surface structure you want unlocked. that's the one. the main character 👑

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🔒 THREAD SAFETY 🔒

not thread safe, bestie. NOT. 😭

and before you come for me: the "locking" this function is talking about is not thread-safe locking at all. it's about making the pixels available for direct access. two completely different things, iykyk. do not conflate them, fr fr 💀

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🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

this one's been serving since SDL 3.2.0 ✨

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• SDL_LockSurface(3) — the other half of the situationship, go read it 💜

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🧚 the source of all this wisdom is Simple Directmedia Layer, running SDL 3.4.18 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅🎀