alert(3)

✨ alert(3) ✨

okay bestie, we're diving into the Allegro manual today and this one is literally the popup-alert-box function from the Allegro game programming library 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

alert — displays a popup alert box. yeah that's it. that's the whole job. Allegro game programming library, iykyk 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int alert(const char *s1, *s2, *s3, const char *b1, *b2, int c1, c2);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically alert pops up a whole alert box on screen for you. it's giving three lines of text (s1–s3) plus one or two buttons. you pass the button text in b1 and b2 — and heads up, b2 is allowed to be NULL if you only want one button, no drama 🫶

the keyboard shortcuts for those buttons go in c1 and c2, as an ASCII value. periodt.

example time, and yes it's cute:

if (!exists(CONFIG_FILE))
   alert(CONFIG_FILE, "not found.", "Using defaults.",
         "&Continue", NULL, 'c', 0);

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

returns 1 or 2 depending on which button got clicked. that's your vibe check on what the user chose 👑

but okay here's the little plot twist: if the alert gets dismissed by pressing ESC and ESC is not one of the keyboard shortcuts, it treats that as a click on the second button. and honestly? that's consistent with the classic "Ok" / "Cancel" alert situation, so it makes sense, no cap 💯

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• alert3(3)
• gui_fg_color(3)
• exgui(3)
• expackf(3)
• exspline(3)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and pop up some alerts 💖 this was the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, and you just read alert(3) — slay ✨🎀🦋