arcantarget_hint(3)

💖 arcantarget_hint(3) 💖

okay so this is the Arcan Lua API page for arcantarget_hint, and the whole vibe is: send a hint state through a frameserver tied to an arcan instance. no cap. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

arcantarget_hint — send a hint state through a frameserver tied to an arcan instance. periodt. 💅

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

bool:ok
arcantarget_hint( string:kind, tbl:hint )
arcantarget_hint( vid:fsrv, string:kind, tbl:hint )

the way this works is you either pass kind + hint, or you put fsrv first and then kind + hint. iconic. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

When the arcan-in-arcan platform is used (the arcan_lwa binary), it can forward hints like any normal arcan-shmif client. These are from a subset of the ones that can be found in launch_target. 🦋

If fsrv is not provided, the default output, WORLDID, will be used. Otherwise it is expected that fsrv references a valid frameserver tied to a valid source from define_arcantarget or retrieved through the _adopt event handler. 🔥

The currently supported ones are:

• input_label — the format of the hint table matches that of the description in launch_target.
• ident — with a string:message field in hint, provided as the new segment runtime identity (e.g. document name).
• alert — with a string:message field in hint, provided as the reason for user attention.
• statesize — with a int:size field in hint, provided as the estimated current output size of a state-save.
• cursor — with a string:style matching the set in launch_target.

highkey that's the currently supported list, bestie. 💖

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

function arcantarget_hint0()
      arcantarget_hint("input_label",
      {
            labelhint = "test",
            description = "this should register as a digital button",
      })
end

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

function arcantarget_hint1()
      arcantarget_hint("cursor", {style = "move"})
end

🔥 SEE ALSO: 🔥

• targetcontrol

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cute sign-off: targetcontrol • October 2026 • arcantarget_hint(3) — mwah 💋✨