aa_autoinitkbd(3)

✨ NAME ✨

aa_autoinitkbd — the easy, no-stress, bestie-approved keyboard initialization function for AA-lib 💖

It lives in the Library Functions Manual, so you already know it's part of the aa_autoinitkbd(3) crew. Let's get you a keyboard, babes ⌨️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <aalib.h>

int aa_autoinitkbd
(
     struct aa_context *context,
     int mode
);

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• struct aa_context *context — the AA-lib context you want this whole operation to happen on. Like, the thing we're operating on. That one. 🫶
• int mode — a whole mask of extra features you're requesting, bestie. It can contain AA_SENDRELEASE if you're the kind of girl who cares about release events too 👀 (and honestly? valid).

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the vibe: this function goes looking for an available keyboard driver that supports the mode you asked for. It's giving matchmaker. It tries the recommended drivers first, and then — in order — it works its way through the drivers chilling in the aa_kbddrivers array, which is basically all the regular output drivers compiled into AA-lib. Iconic behavior, no notes. 🔥

Also, real talk: every AA-lib program ought to have a call to aa_parseoptions before the first call to aa_init. Not a suggestion, it's the law, periodt. 👑

⭐ RETURNS ⭐

1 when it works out 💖, or 0 when it doesn't 😭. That's it, that's the whole story.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The whole friend group, roll call 📣 — save_d(3), mem_d(3), aa_help(3), aa_formats(3), aa_fonts(3), aa_dithernames(3), aa_drivers(3), aa_kbddrivers(3), aa_mousedrivers(3), aa_kbdrecommended(3), aa_mouserecommended(3), aa_displayrecommended(3), aa_defparams(3), aa_defrenderparams(3), aa_scrwidth(3), aa_scrheight(3), aa_mmwidth(3), aa_mmheight(3), aa_imgwidth(3), aa_imgheight(3), aa_image(3), aa_text(3), aa_attrs(3), aa_currentfont(3), aa_autoinit(3), aa_autoinitmouse(3), aa_recommendhi(3), aa_recommendlow(3), aa_init(3), aa_initkbd(3), aa_initmouse(3), aa_close(3), aa_uninitkbd(3), aa_uninitmouse(3), aa_fastrender(3), aa_render(3), aa_puts(3), aa_printf(3), aa_gotoxy(3), aa_hidecursor(3), aa_showcursor(3), aa_getmouse(3), aa_hidemouse(3), aa_showmouse(3), aa_registerfont(3), aa_setsupported(3), aa_setfont(3), aa_getevent(3), aa_getkey(3), aa_resize(3), aa_resizehandler(3), aa_parseoptions(3), aa_edit(3), aa_createedit(3), aa_editkey(3), aa_putpixel(3), aa_recommendhikbd(3), aa_recommendlowkbd(3), aa_recommendhimouse(3), aa_recommendlowmouse(3), aa_recommendhidisplay(3), aa_recommendlowdisplay(3).

okay that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading 🥹💜

This one was brought to you by c2man reading straight out of aalib.h, dated 8 September 1999 — yes, a 90s baby, and it still slays. Stay hydrated, call your friends, and don't forget your aa_parseoptions 🍓✨