pop_video_context(3)

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version 0.7.1 · 2 versions
, in nixos 26.05

💖 pop_video_context(3) — the Arcan Lua API one, bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Arcan Lua API and it's about yeeting your current video context. stay with me, it's shorter than a TikTok attention span and way more useful 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pop_video_context — deallocate the current video context. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nil
pop_video_context()

it returns nil, it takes nothing, it just pops. no arguments, no drama, no cap. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the lore: every video object is bound to at least one rendering context — literally, that's the whole system. the currently active context lives on a stack, like a little tower of contexts, and this function is the pop. 📚

popping means deleting all the video-subsystem-related resources that are currently bound to the active context. all of them. gone. not a drill. 😭

🎀 NOTES 🎀

  1. popping the outmost context is basically the same energy as deleting all allocated vids. same outcome, different path, iykyk. 💀

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

function pop_video_context0()
      a = fill_surface(VRESW, VRESH, 0, 255, 0);
      show_image(a);
      pop_video_context(); -- a should disappear
      move_image(a, 0, 0); -- should yield a crash
end

so you fill a surface, you show it, you pop the context — a should disappear ✨ — and then the moment you try to move_image it? crash. that's not a bug, that's the point, bestie. a is a ghost now, don't touch ghosts 👻

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

push it, pop it, check the size, check the usage — the whole friend group, together at last 🌈

and that's the page!! this one's brought to you by vidsys, dated October 2026 — go forth and pop responsibly, mwah 💋💖

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