XCreateRegion(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the XCreateRegion(3) page 💅 this one lives in XLIB FUNCTIONS, and we're about to get regions handled — no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

Meet the trio: XCreateRegion, XSetRegion, and XDestroyRegion — their whole job is create or destroy regions. That's it, that's the vibe. 🦋

✨ SYNTAX ✨

Here are the exact signatures, bestie — keep them character for character:

Region XCreateRegion(void);

int XSetRegion(Display *display, GC gc, Region r);

int XDestroyRegion(Region r);

No vibes-based typo fixes, okay? 🙈

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• display — specifies the connection to the X server. This is your link to the X server, bestie. 💖
• gc — specifies the GC. Yes, that's the whole note; the GC is the main character here. 👑
• r — specifies the region. The region in question, periodt. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so XCreateRegion creates a new empty region. Fresh out the box, empty, iconic. ✨

XSetRegion sets the clip-mask in the GC to the specified region. The region is specified relative to the drawable's origin. The resulting GC clip origin is implementation-dependent — so don't go assuming some specific value, bestie. 🫶 Once it is set in the GC, the region can be destroyed. Slay, that's the lifecycle.

XDestroyRegion deallocates the storage associated with a specified region. Basically it cleans up after the region so you're not just leaving storage hanging like confetti. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• XEmptyRegion(3)
• XIntersectRegion(3)
• Xlib - C Language X Interface

Go read those if you're in your region era, iykyk. 🌈

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That's the tea ☕ — the footer wraps it up with X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14, and this very XCreateRegion(3) page. bye bestie, go make some regions and stay hydrated 💜🧚