gui_mouse_x(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ gui_mouse_x(3) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is from the Allegro manual and it's literally the little hook squad that lets the GUI peek at your mouse 🐭💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

gui_mouse_x, gui_mouse_y, gui_mouse_z, gui_mouse_b — the hook functions the GUI routines use to get at the mouse state, bestie. Allegro game programming library, no cap. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

extern int (*gui_mouse_x)();

extern int (*gui_mouse_y)();

extern int (*gui_mouse_z)();

extern int (*gui_mouse_b)();

like, four function pointers, all extern, all returning int, all taking no args. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so these are hook functions, right? and the GUI routines call them whenever they need to access the mouse state. that's the whole job. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

by default they just return copies of the mouse_x, mouse_y, mouse_z, and mouse_b variables — that's it, that's the vibe. 🌈

but here's where it gets fun 👀 — they could be used to offset or scale the mouse position, or to read input from a completely different source entirely. like, go off, honestly. main character energy fr fr. 💜

ngl the fact that you can swap the entire input source out from under the GUI is lowkey unhinged and I'm obsessed with it 🫶

and that's the whole page, babes! this lil beauty is from Allegro version 4.4.3 and it lives at gui_mouse_x(3) — mwah, slay, go write something cute 💖🎀🦋

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