TICKIT_RENDERBUFFER_FLUSH_TO_TERM(3)

✨ TICKIT_RENDERBUFFER_FLUSH_TO_TERM ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual 💖 this one's about tickit_renderbuffer_flush_to_term and it's honestly giving "quietly does the most important thing in the room" energy.

🌸 NAME 🌸

tickit_renderbuffer_flush_to_term — dump everything you've been hoarding in the buffer and yeet it onto the terminal 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <tickit.h>

void tickit_renderbuffer_flush_to_term(TickitRenderBuffer *rb, TickitTerm *tt);

Link with -ltickit. yes, literally, don't forget, she will not link herself 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, and it's good tea ☕

tickit_renderbuffer_flush_to_term() takes the entire stored state sitting in the buffer and outputs all of it to the terminal. the whole thing. every last bit of it. no crumbs left. 🔥

and then — and this is the part that makes her iconic — it resets the buffer back to its initial state. so it's a full send, then a clean slate. main character behaviour fr fr ✨

the stored content gets output in a strictly top-to-bottom, left-to-right order. why do we care? because that ordering means a minimal amount of cursor movement, which is the efficient girlboss way to do it, and it also helps reduce output flicker on the terminal display. no ugly shimmering, no visual chaos, just smooth. 🌈

not me being obsessed with a function whose whole personality is "organized and tidy" 😭 she's lowkey a Virgo.

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

she returns nothing. void. empty-handed but somehow still ate. 💀

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• tickit_renderbuffer_new(3)
• tickit_renderbuffer_reset(3)
• tickit_renderbuffer(7)
• tickit(7)

go read the whole friend group, they're all connected iykyk 🧚

and that's the page!! the footer is literally just TICKIT_REN...USH_TO_TERM(3) again (the title, screaming her own name at the bottom like the icon she is) from the Library Functions Manual — no extra version or date info beyond that, so don't come for me, that's all the page gave us 🙈

mwah, go flush something, bestie 💜