clear_keybuf(3)

✨ clear_keybuf ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual — yes THAT Allegro, the game programming library, the icon, the moment 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

clear_keybuf — clears the keyboard buffer. Allegro game programming library.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

void clear_keybuf();

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: the keyboard buffer is just sitting there, lowkey hoarding every keypress you fed it. clear_keybuf() empties it. That's it. That's the whole job. No cap. 💀

The way that you usually want this is at the start of your program, right before you start reading keys — because otherwise all those previously buffered keys are just gonna come crawling back out of readkey() or ureadkey() and you'll be like "why is my character walking left, I never pressed anything 😭". It's giving haunted keyboard. Clear the buffer, cleanse the vibe, periodt. ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• install_keyboard(3)
• keypressed(3)
• readkey(3)
• ureadkey(3)

that's the whole page bestie, go forth and clear those buffers 🫶

🌈 sign-off time: this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — clear_keybuf(3), mwah, iconic, no notes 👑