GLUTESTABLISHOVERLAY(3)

✨ glutEstablishOverlay ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the glutEstablishOverlay page from the OpenGLUT overlays manual — yes it's short, no it's not gonna take long, let's go 💅

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🌸 LIBRARY 🌸

OpenGLUT — specifically the overlays corner of it. iykyk 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <openglut.h>

void
glutEstablishOverlay(void);

that's it. that's the whole signature. no args, no return value, no drama. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, this one creates an overlay that's associated with the current window. that's the whole vibe. the overlay is tied to whichever window is the current one at the time, periodt. 👑

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💀 CAVEATS 💀

okay so here's the tea, and it's a little tragic:

Unimplemented. like… it just doesn't do the thing. 😭

and the lore gets juicier:

• Old GLUT would straight-up terminate the program when an overlay was not possible. like, not me dying on the spot 💀
• freeglut just ignores the request instead. much chiller.
• OpenGLUT ignores the request as well. so bestie, nothing happens. it's giving "sent to the void" 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these next, they're the whole friend group:

• glutRemoveOverlay(3)
• glutUseLayer(3)
• glutPostOverlayRedisplay(3)
• glutPostWindowOverlayRedisplay(3)
• glutShowOverlay(3)
• glutHideOverlay(3)

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and that's the page!! slay 💖 this little icon was brought to you by OpenGLUT, dated UNDATED, under the manual title UNTITLED() — yes the footer is literally just vibes, no cap. mwah, go forth and overlay (or don't, since it's unimplemented 🫶) ✨🎀🦋