al_create_display(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

al_create_display — Allegro 5 API, bestie!! literally the display-creating icon of the Allegro reference manual.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *al_create_display(int w, int h)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this one creates a display, or window, with the specified dimensions. The parameters of the display are determined by the last calls to al_set_new_display_*. Default parameters are used if none are set explicitly. periodt.

Creating a new display will automatically make it the active one, with the backbuffer selected for drawing. main character energy fr fr. 👑

Returns NULL on error. 😭 not the error NULL, bestie.

Each display that uses OpenGL as a backend has a distinct OpenGL rendering context associated with it. See al_set_target_bitmap(3) for the discussion about rendering contexts. iykyk, that's where the context talk lives. 🦋

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these too, bestie:

al_set_new_display_flags(3), al_set_new_display_option(3), al_set_new_display_refresh_rate(3), al_set_new_display_adapter(3), al_set_new_window_title(3) al_set_window_position(3)

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