xcb_render_create_picture(3)

💖 xcb_render_create_picture — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're reading a libxcb man page together and honestly? it's giving mystery novel because half of it is literally blank. but we move. this is a page from XCB Requests, and it's all about creating a render picture. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

xcb_render_create_picture — and that's it. no description. the name section is just... vibes. an empty canvas, if you will. iconic of it honestly 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta pull in the header:

#include <xcb/render.h>

🌸 Request function 🌸

here's the whole function signature, and yes it's a long one, but she's worth it:

xcb_void_cookie_t xcb_render_create_picture(xcb_connection_t *conn,
       xcb_render_picture_t pid, xcb_drawable_t drawable,
       xcb_render_pictformat_t format, uint32_t value_mask, const
       void *value_list);

look at that. six whole arguments. main character energy fr fr 👑

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✨ REQUEST ARGUMENTS ✨

• conn — the XCB connection to X11. your link to the mothership, your group chat with the X server, your whole entire situation 💅
• pid — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. yeah. the docs said "idk her." we don't know. nobody knows. she remains a mystery 🙈
• drawable — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. also a mystery. the original authors simply did not elaborate 💀
• format — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. bestie I wish I could tell you more but the source material is silent on this one 😭
• value_mask — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. still not documented. still a mystery. still slaying, presumably ✨
• value_list — TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. and that's the whole list, no notes, no cap 🫶

lowkey the "TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED" thing is doing a LOT of heavy lifting on this page. every single argument. not one of them explained. and yet, here we are, together, reading it anyway. that's community 💜

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

...

yeah. it's empty. there is genuinely nothing here. the description section is a blank space and honestly? she said "no thoughts, head empty" and committed to it 🌈

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

this one returns an xcb_void_cookie_t. and here's the tea: any errors have to be handled in the event loop, so you can't just vibe-check the return value and call it a day.

if you'd rather handle errors directly with xcb_request_check instead, use xcb_render_create_picture_checked. that's your girl for that job. see xcb-requests(3) for all the details on how that works 📬

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✨ ERRORS ✨

this request does never generate any errors. ✨

no errors. zero. none. she's perfect, she's flawless, she's never done anything wrong in her life 💖

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

also empty. nothing to see here. literally. move along, nothing to reference 🎀

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

this page was generated from render.xml. if you've got corrections or improvements, hit up xcb@lists.freedesktop.org — they're the ones who actually know things 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! we did it!! 🌸🦋

signing off from X Version 11, libxcb 1.17.0, on the xcb_render_create_picture(3) page itself — stay hydrated, read your man pages, and remember: if the docs say TODO, that's not on you, that's on them 💅✨👑