scare_mouse_area(3)

💅 scare_mouse_area — the manual page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, and it's about a lil function called scare_mouse_area — literally one of the mouse-cursor-hiding helpers. it's giving "quiet backstage crew for your drawing code" and honestly? obsessed. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

scare_mouse_area — a helper for hiding the mouse cursor before drawing in an area. it lives in the Allegro game programming library, iykyk. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void scare_mouse_area(int x, int y, int w, int h);

that's it. that's the whole signature. four ints and a dream. 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, it's exactly like scare_mouse(), with one little plot twist: it will only hide the cursor if the cursor is actually inside the specified rectangle. 💅

if the cursor is not in that rectangle? no biggie — it just gets frozen in place until you call unscare_mouse(). which means it can't interfere with your drawing. main character cursor stays put, your pixels stay unbothered, everybody wins. 👑

fr fr, no cursor chaos in your art. periodt. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• unscare_mouse(3) — the one who lets the cursor out again 🫶
• scare_mouse(3) — the OG, no area check, hides it always 💀
• show_mouse(3) — bringing the cursor back into the light 🙈

okay that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, and yeah it's literally just scare_mouse_area(3) doing its lil thing. mwah, go draw something iconic 💋🎀