xcb_poly_text_16(3)

💖 xcb_poly_text_16 — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you're reading xcb_poly_text_16(3) from the XCB crew. Yes, that's a real manual page number, yes it's section 3, and yes we're gonna get through it together. grab a strawberry 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_poly_text_16 —

and then… nothing. that's it. that's the whole name section. the description part after the dash is literally empty, no cap. iconique of it to leave us hanging 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <xcb/xproto.h>

🌸 Request function 🌸

xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_poly_text_16(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_drawable_t drawable, xcb_gcontext_t gc, int16_t x, int16_t y,
       uint32_t items_len, const uint8_t *items);

look at that signature. seven whole arguments. she's high maintenance and we love that for her 👑

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✨ REQUEST ARGUMENTS ✨

• conn — the XCB connection to X11. your lil hotline to the X server, the main character of every XCB story 🫶
• drawable — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. yeah babe nobody wrote this one down 😭
• gc — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. also a mystery, also undocumented, we're all just vibing 🙈
• x — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. nope. nothing. not a single word. 💀
• y — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. same energy. the void stares back.
• items_len — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. undocumented bestie, sorry to report 🎀
• items — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. also blank. the whole middle of this page is giving "we'll finish it later" ✨

real talk: every argument except conn is marked TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. in the original. that's not me being lazy, that's literally what the page says. i'm just the messenger 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

it's empty. like, completely. there is no description. the DESCRIPTION section of this manual page contains zero words. the way that the docs just… didn't 👁️👄👁️

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

she returns an xcb_void_cookie_t, and if any errors show up you have to handle them over in the event loop, okay? not here, not now, in the loop 🔥

if you'd rather handle errors directly, there's xcb_request_check for that — use xcb_poly_text_16_checked instead. the checked version is your girl for that. peek at xcb-requests(3) for the details ✨

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✨ ERRORS ✨

bestie. good news. this request does never generate any errors. never ever. zero. none. not one. slay 💅✨

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

nothing here either. the SEE ALSO section is empty, so there's no cross-references to send you off to. you're on your own, gorgeous 🦋

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

this page was generated from xproto.xml. if you spot something wrong or wanna suggest corrections and improvements, hit up xcb@lists.freedesktop.org 📧

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and that's the whole page, bestie! every flag, every arg, every empty section, all accounted for. nothing skipped, nothing invented, periodt. 💖

written up against X Version 11 / libxcb 1.17.0, page xcb_poly_text_16(3). go forth and be iconic 🌈⭐👑