al_get_keyboard_state(3)

✨ al_get_keyboard_state(3) ✨

okay bestie, so this is from the Library Functions Manual and it's literally the entire Allegro 5 API page for al_get_keyboard_state — short, sweet, and lowkey iconic 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

al_get_keyboard_state — Allegro 5 API. that's it, that's the whole name, no notes 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_get_keyboard_state(ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_STATE *ret_state)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: you call this function, and it saves the state of the keyboard — like, the state of the keyboard at the exact moment the function gets called ⏰✨ — and it drops all that into the structure that ret_state is pointing at.

so yeah: pass in a pointer to an ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_STATE, and boom, you've got a snapshot of what the keyboard was doing right then. main character energy fr fr 👑

ngl, if ret_state isn't pointing somewhere valid, that's on you — the page doesn't promise anything cute happens 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_key_down(3) — the "was this key pressed" bestie 🍓
• al_clear_keyboard_state(3) — the "okay reset, fresh start" one 🧹
• ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_STATE(3) — the structure itself, the whole vibe ✨

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and that's the page!! mwah 💖 brought to you by the Allegro reference manual — go forth and read your keyboard state, queen 🎀🦋💜