pp(3)

💖 pp — prettyprinting, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is the pp(3) page from the Library Functions Manual, and it's literally the most low-effort-high-reward debugging tool in the whole liblo friend group. no cap. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pp — prettyprinting functions 💅

like, the name says it all. these are the girls that make your ugly little binary blobs look presentable.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

🎀 Functions 🎀

void lo_bundle_pp (lo_bundle b)

pretty-print a lo_bundle object ✨

void lo_message_pp (lo_message m)

pretty-print a lo_message object ✨

void lo_arg_pp (lo_type type, void *data)

pretty-print a set of typed arguments ✨

void lo_server_pp (lo_server s)

pretty-print a lo_server object ✨

void lo_method_pp (lo_method m)

pretty-print a lo_method object ✨

void lo_method_pp_prefix (lo_method m, const char *p)

pretty-print a lo_method object, but prepend a given prefix to all field names ✨

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🦋 Detailed Description 🦋

so here's the vibe: every single one of these functions prints an ASCII representation of its argument to stdout. that's it. that's the whole personality. 🫧

Useful for debugging. fr fr, this is the "just print it and see" of the liblo world and honestly? iconic. 👑

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🌈 Function Documentation 🌈

💜 void lo_arg_pp (lo_type type, void * data)

pretty-print a set of typed arguments.

Parameters

• type — a type string in the form provided to lo_send().
• data — an OSC data pointer, like that provided in the lo_method_handler.

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💜 void lo_bundle_pp (lo_bundle b)

pretty-print a lo_bundle object.

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💜 void lo_message_pp (lo_message m)

pretty-print a lo_message object.

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💜 void lo_method_pp (lo_method m)

pretty-print a lo_method object.

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💜 void lo_method_pp_prefix (lo_method m, const char * p)

pretty-print a lo_method object, but prepend a given prefix to all field names.

like, the regular lo_method_pp but with a little name tag on everything. obsessed. 🏷️✨

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💜 void lo_server_pp (lo_server s)

pretty-print a lo_server object.

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👑 Author 👑

Generated automatically by Doxygen for liblo from the source code. (not a human author, bestie — the robots did this one, and honestly they ate. 🤖💅)

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k that's the whole page! every function, every param, every detail — all of it, no skips. 💖

this was liblo Version 0.34, page pp(3) — mwah, go debug something pretty. 🎀🦋✨