find_dialog_focus(3)

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✨ find_dialog_focus ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual 💖 this one's a lil function page from the Allegro game programming library, and it's literally so simple you're gonna be obsessed.

🌸 NAME 🌸

find_dialog_focus — searches the dialog for the object which has the input focus. Allegro game programming library. 🎯

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

int find_dialog_focus(DIALOG *dialog);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function goes digging through your dialog and finds the object that's currently holding the input focus. it hands you back an index, or -1 if the focus isn't set at all. no cap.

and why do you care?? because it's highkey useful when you're calling do_dialog() several times in a row and you wanna leave the focus exactly where it was the last time the dialog was displayed 👑 like, you don't want the focus jumping around all chaotic, you want it to stay put, periodt.

so the move is literally just:

do_dialog(dlg, find_dialog_focus(dlg));

the way that one-liner just works?? iconic. it's giving "I remembered where we were" energy and honestly we love that for you 🫶

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

iykyk, go read those next bestie, they're all part of the same lil dialog squad ✨

and that's a wrap!! this page came to you from Allegro, version 4.4.3 🌈 mwah, go write something cute 💜

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