TICKIT_WINDOW_CTLNAME(3)

💖 TICKIT_WINDOW_CTLNAME 💖

okay bestie, you found the tickit_window_ctlname(3) page, from the Library Functions Manual ✨ — it's literally the little lookup desk for window controls. names in, names out, types decoded. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tickit_window_ctlname — return the name of a window control 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <tickit.h>

const char * tickit_window_ctlname(TickitWindowCtl ctl);
TickitWindowCtl tickit_window_lookup_ctl(const char * name);

TickitType tickit_window_ctltype(TickitWindowCtl ctl);

Link with -ltickit.

🫶 yes you have to actually link -ltickit, it's giving "the library does not link itself", periodt.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

tickit_window_ctlname() hands you back the name of the window control you pass in. and like… these names are exactly the lowercase strings listed over in tickit_window(7). lowercase. iconic behaviour honestly 🌈

tickit_window_lookup_ctl() goes the other way — you give it a name, it gives you the control constant. but if the name is not recognised? -1 comes back at you. it's giving "unknown, bestie" 💀

tickit_window_ctltype() tells you the type of a given window control, as one of these constants:

• TICKIT_TYPE_BOOL — the value is an integer representing a simple boolean choice, where any nonzero value is true. use tickit_window_setctl_int(3) and tickit_window_getctl_int(3). 🍓
• TICKIT_TYPE_INT — the value is an integer representing a quantity, or a value in some particular enumeration. use tickit_window_setctl_int(3) and tickit_window_getctl_int(3). 👑

and for unrecognised control types? the function returns 0. that's the vibe check failing, lowkey 🙈

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• tickit_window_ctlname() returns a constant string pointer.
• tickit_window_lookup_ctl() returns a control constant or -1.
• tickit_window_ctltype() returns a control type constant or 0.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

tickit_window(7), tickit(7)

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and that's the whole page, main character energy from start to finish 💜 go forth and look up your controls, bestie. this was TICKIT_WINDOW_CTLNAME(3) from the Library Functions Manual — mwah, slay, bye 🎀✨