SDL_VideoDriverName(3)

💖 SDL_VideoDriverName(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL API Reference ✨ this one lives in the SDL manual and it's genuinely so useful, no cap 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_VideoDriverName — obtain the name of the video driver 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include "SDL.h"

char *SDL_VideoDriverName(char *namebuf, int maxlen);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — the buffer that namebuf is pointing at gets filled up with the name of the initialised video driver, and it goes up to a maximum of maxlen characters.

⚠️ and yes, that maxlen count includes the NULL terminator — she's counting the whole squad, not just the visible letters 💀 don't forget her or it's giving buffer overflow energy

and the driver name itself? it's a simple one word identifier, like "x11" or "windib" — short, sweet, iconic, one word only 👑

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

• if video has not been initialised with SDL_Init, you get NULL back 😭 (the audacity honestly)
• otherwise you get a pointer to namebuf 🥳 slay

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• SDL_Init
• SDL_InitSubSystem

go read those too, bestie, they're the whole vibe iykyk 💜

that's the whole page, periodt 💅 this one comes to you from the SDL manual, dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01 — yes she's an elder but she still ate and left no crumbs, fr fr 🦋✨ bye bestie, go initialise your video subsystem 💖🌸