XkbAllocGeomColors(3)

💅 XkbAllocGeomColors(3) — XKB FUNCTIONS

ok so bestie, welcome to XkbAllocGeomColors from the libX11 fam ✨ (shoutout the X Version 11 crew, we love a legacy icon). This is a page from the XKB FUNCTIONS section and honestly? she's a little niche but she ATE. Let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

XkbAllocGeomColors — allocate geometry colors 🎨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Status XkbAllocGeomColors (XkbGeometryPtr geom, int num_needed);

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• geom — the geometry you want to allocate colors for, bestie. that's the one we're decorating 💖
• num_needed — how many new colors you need. like, literally the count of fresh colors you're asking for 🔥

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

ok so context first, because iykyk: Xkb hands you a whole bunch of functions to allocate and free subcomponents of a keyboard geometry. use these when you're creating or modifying keyboard geometries — main character energy for sure 💅

⚠️ big heads up: these functions merely allocate space for the new element(s). that's it. nothing is filled in for you. it is entirely up to you to fill in the values explicitly in your code. no cap. 🫶

Also important, so listen up: these allocation functions increase sz_* but they never touch num_* — unless there's an allocation failure, in which case they reset both sz_* and num_* to zero 😭💀

And what do they return? These functions return Success if they succeed, BadAlloc if they're not able to allocate space, or BadValue if a parameter is not as expected. periodt. 🌈

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🧚 so what does this one actually do

XkbAllocGeomColors allocates space for num_needed colors and adds them to the specified geometry geom. ⭐

And a lil note on what a color even is here: a color name is a string whose interpretation is not specified by Xkb 🙈. All other geometry data structures refer to colors using their indices in this global list, or pointers to colors in this list. that's the whole vibe check, no cap ✨

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

• BadAlloc — unable to allocate storage 😭
• BadValue — an argument is out of range 🚩

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and allocate responsibly 💖✨

🫶 cute lil sign-off: this was XkbAllocGeomColors(3) from X Version 11, shipped with libX11 1.8.14. mwah, take care of her 🎀🌸