exscroll(3alleg4)

✨ exscroll — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, and it's all about exscroll, a lil demo from the Allegro game programming library 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

exscroll — Mode-X hardware scrolling and split screens, and it lives in the Allegro game programming library. no cap, that's literally what it is 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

Example exscroll

like. that's the whole vibe. you include the header, you run the example, you scroll. iconic 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this program is a whole demonstration of how to use hardware scrolling ✨ like it's showing you the moves, fr fr.

the scrolling should work on anything that supports virtual screens larger than the physical screen 🖥️✨ — that's the vibe check it needs to pass, and if your setup passes it, you're golden 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group, in order, don't skip anyone 🥰:

• BITMAP(3alleg4)
• END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)
• RGB(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_H(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_W(3alleg4)
• acquire_bitmap(3alleg4)
• allegro_init(3alleg4)
• allegro_message(3alleg4)
• clear_keybuf(3alleg4)
• create_sub_bitmap(3alleg4)
• desktop_palette(3alleg4)
• destroy_bitmap(3alleg4)
• install_keyboard(3alleg4)
• keypressed(3alleg4)
• rectfill(3alleg4)
• release_bitmap(3alleg4)
• rest(3alleg4)
• screen(3alleg4)
• scroll_screen(3alleg4)
• set_color(3alleg4)
• set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)
• set_palette(3alleg4)
• vline(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this lil scroll-y moment is brought to you by Allegro, version 4.4.3, and it's filed under exscroll(3alleg4) — go forth and scroll, you got this 👑✨🦋