poll_scroll(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ poll_scroll — bestie's guide to checking on your scroll ✨

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, and it's all about poll_scroll, a lil function that checks whether your scroll request actually went through when you're doing triple buffering. it's giving "are we there yet" but for hardware. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

poll_scroll — checks the status of a scroll request with triple buffering. it lives in the Allegro game programming library, bestie 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <allegro.h>

int poll_scroll();

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so, this function is for triple buffering. what it does is check the status of a hardware scroll that you already kicked off earlier with the request_scroll() routine. like, you asked for the scroll, and now poll_scroll() is the friend who goes "hey… did that happen yet? 👀"

🦋 RETURN VALUE 🦋

  • non-zero → it's still waiting for the scroll to take place. patience, queen 🧘
  • zero → the requested scroll has already happened. slay, it's done ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ngl this one is short and sweet, but that's the whole vibe — it's a status checker, not a whole saga 💀

anyway, that's the page! this was pulled from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3 — shoutout to the Allegro girlies for keeping it iconic since forever 🫶 no cap, go check your scrolls, bestie 💖🎀🦋

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