aa_showcursor(3)

✨ aa_showcursor — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to aa_showcursor(3) 💖 this one lives in the Library Functions Manual and it is genuinely the shortest little icon in the whole AA-lib friend group. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

aa_showcursor — show the hardware cursor. yes that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-trick pony and she ate 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <aalib.h>

void aa_showcursor(aa_context *c);

like. look at her. two lines. no return value, no drama, no notes. main character energy fr fr ✨

🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• aa_context *c — this is the AA-lib context you wanna operate on, bestie. it's the little world your program is living in and you're telling it "hey, wake the cursor up" 🌈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so. this function shows the hardware cursor. that's the vibe. you call it, the cursor comes back, we move on with our lives 🎀

⚠️ heads up though: this function may not be ignored by some drivers. so like, don't assume every driver is gonna be chill about it. some of them are gonna do their own thing regardless and that's just how it is 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole extended fam, no cap — go read these too, they're all icons in their own right 🫶

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_autoinitkbd(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_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)

and that's the whole page bestie, we're done here 🌈✨

this lil masterpiece was brought to you by c2man reading aalib.h, dated 8 September 1999 — yeah she's vintage, she's an OG, and she still slays 💖 and yes, the page itself signs off as aa_showcursor(3) because of course it does 👑