mouse_sprite(3)

💖 mouse_sprite(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual ✨ this one's short and sweet, but it's important, so pay attention 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

mouse_sprite, mouse_x_focus, mouse_y_focus — the global variable that holds the mouse sprite and the focus point, from the Allegro game programming library 🐭✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

extern BITMAP *mouse_sprite;

extern int mouse_x_focus;

extern int mouse_y_focus;

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so these are global variables and they're holding two things for you: the current mouse sprite and the focus point 💅 that's it, that's the whole job, and they ate 🍓

but listen, and this is the important part — they are read-only 👑 like, do NOT just reach in there and start assigning to them, bestie, that's not the vibe 😭

the only correct way to change them is through the proper functions:

• set_mouse_sprite() — for the sprite itself
• set_mouse_sprite_focus() — for the focus point

so if you wanna modify these, you go through those two, periodt. no cap 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• set_mouse_sprite(3)
• set_mouse_sprite_focus(3)

and that's the whole page, gorgeous ✨ go forth and let the library handle your mouse sprite for you, the way it was literally designed to 🧚💖

Allegro, version 4.4.3 — mwah, love u, see u in the next manpage 💅🎀🦋