AL_ACKNOWLEDGE_DRAWING_HALT(3)

💅 al_acknowledge_drawing_halt(3) — the "okay okay i stopped drawing, pls don't kill my app" function 🫶

so bestie, this page lives in the Library Functions Manual section of the Allegro reference manual, and the whole filename got chopped down to al_acknowl...rawing_halt(3) because man pages are dramatic like that. anyway. it's part of the Allegro 5 API and it's literally your app's survival instinct, no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

al_acknowledge_drawing_halt — Allegro 5 API 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_acknowledge_drawing_halt(ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the vibe: you call this function in response to the ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_HALT_DRAWING(3) event. that's it, that's the job. 💖

right now this is necessary for Android and iOS, because on those platforms you are not allowed to draw to your display while it is not being shown. like, at all. the OS is watching. 👀

🚨 so listen — if you do not call this function to let the operating system know that you have stopped drawing, or if you call it too late, your application likely will be considered misbehaving and get terminated. yes, literally killed. dead. gone. 😭💀

so when you get the halt event, hit this function immediately. it's giving "polite citizen of the operating system" energy and honestly? iconic. 🌈

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🧚 SINCE 🧚

5.1.0 — she's been here since 5.1.0 and she's been slaying ever since ⭐

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_HALT_DRAWING(3) — the event that starts all the drama 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie! ✨ mwah 💜

she's from the Allegro reference manual, filed under Library Functions Manual, and the footer was just the page name al_acknowl...rawing_halt(3) being truncated again — the way that filename ate itself, honestly 💀👑