xcb_clear_area(3)

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🌸 xcb_clear_area — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is xcb_clear_area(3), a section 3 manual page from the XCB Requests fam. And listen, I'm gonna be so real with you: this page is serving mystery. The whole thing is basically "we'll tell you later" energy and I'm not gonna pretend otherwise. But I got you — every crumb of info that's here, you're getting it. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

xcb_clear_area —

and that's it. That's the whole name line. The description part is literally blank. Empty. A void. The page said "name: xcb_clear_area" and then just… stopped. Iconic honestly. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <xcb/xproto.h>

Request function

xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_clear_area(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       uint8_t exposures, xcb_window_t window, int16_t x, int16_t y,
       uint16_t width, uint16_t height);

so yeah, that's the function signature, copy it exactly bestie, don't freestyle the types. 👑

🦋 REQUEST ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • conn — The XCB connection to X11.
  • exposures — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
  • window — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
  • x — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
  • y — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
  • width — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
  • height — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED.
not me having to type "TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED" six times 😭 the conn one is the only one that spilled the tea. The rest are keeping their secrets. I'm not gonna invent behaviour for them though — no cap, I refuse. If it's not in the page, it's not going in this rewrite. periodt.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

…

Yeah. There is genuinely nothing here. The DESCRIPTION section is empty. No words. A blank canvas. A runway with no models. 💀

I know, I know. You came here for the lore and got a vibe check with no vibes. But that's literally what the page says, and I'm not about to make stuff up and call it documentation. That would be actually bad.

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

Returns an xcb_void_cookie_t. Errors (if any) have to be handled in the event loop.

If you want to handle errors directly with xcb_request_check instead, use xcb_clear_area_checked. See xcb-requests(3) for details.

okay so this part IS real info and it's lowkey important — the errors don't just get yeeted at you, they show up in the event loop, and if that's not your thing there's a whole checked variant for you. pick your fighter. 💅

🍓 ERRORS 🍓

This request does never generate any errors.

zero. none. not a single one. she's unproblematic fr fr. 🧚

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

(blank. nothing. an empty shelf. if you were hoping for cross-references, the page said no. 🙈)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Generated from xproto.xml. Contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements.

so if you spot something wrong, that's who you email. they literally asked for corrections and improvements, so go off, you're invited. 💜

X Version 11 · libxcb 1.17.0 · and this lil page answered to the name xcb_clear_area(3) 🌸

k bye bestie, go write some XCB code, you got this 🫶✨

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