TICKIT_RENDERBUFFER_NEW(3)

✨ TICKIT_RENDERBUFFER_NEW(3) ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Library Functions Manual, section 3, and it's literally the origin story of every render buffer 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

tickit_renderbuffer_new — create a new render buffer instance 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <tickit.h>

TickitRenderBuffer *tickit_renderbuffer_new(int lines, int cols);

Link with -ltickit.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so tickit_renderbuffer_new() does exactly what it says on the tin: it creates a brand new TickitRenderBuffer instance, sized however you asked. the way you hand it lines and cols? that's the whole vibe. ✨

heads up bestie — once it's constructed, the size is fixed. locked in. no take-backs, no glow-ups, no resizing era. 🫶

when it's fresh out of the box it starts out super minimal, like a clean girl aesthetic render buffer:

• a clipping region that covers the entire area 🌈
• a zero translation offset
• no applied masks
• no stored pen
• no virtual cursor position 👑

and the best part? you can yeet it all the way back to this exact starting state whenever you want by calling tickit_renderbuffer_reset(3). it's giving "factory reset but make it iconic". 💅

also, the reference count of a newly-constructed render buffer instance is one. you can bump it up or down with tickit_renderbuffer_ref(3) and tickit_renderbuffer_unref(3). and when that reference count hits zero? it gets destroyed. no cap. 💀

🌟 RETURN VALUE 🌟

if everything goes right, tickit_renderbuffer_new() returns a pointer to the new instance. slay. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• tickit_renderbuffer_text(3)
• tickit_renderbuffer_blit(3)
• tickit_renderbuffer_flush_to_term(3)
• tickit_renderbuffer(7)
• tickit(7)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💜 that was tickit_renderbuffer_new(3) from the Library Functions Manual — go build something gorgeous with it, mwah 🎀🦋✨