AL_GET_MOUSE_EVENT_SOURCE(3)

al_get_mouse_event_source(3) 🐭✨ — Library Functions Manual

okay bestie, we’re in the Library Functions Manual and this page is short, sweet, and lowkey iconic. It’s the Allegro 5 API page for the function that hands you the mouse event source. No cap. 🎀

NAME 🌸

al_get_mouse_event_source — Allegro 5 API

SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_EVENT_SOURCE *al_get_mouse_event_source(void)

DESCRIPTION 💖

So this function retrieves the mouse event source. That’s it, that’s the main character. ✨ All mouse events — the ALLEGRO_EVENT_MOUSE_AXES(3) ones — are generated by this event source. It’s giving “one source to rule the mouse events,” and honestly? Obsessed. 💅

It returns NULL if the mouse subsystem was not installed. So if you get NULL back, that’s your vibe check saying the mouse subsystem isn’t installed, periodt. 😭

Heads up, bestie: NULL is the “not installed” signal here — don’t ignore it. 🫶

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that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 — signed off from the Allegro reference manual (Allegro 5 API edition), and the footer is not serving a date today, so we’re leaving that as an iconic mystery. 🎀✨