install_timer(3alleg4)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

install_timer — the little function that installs the Allegro timer interrupt handler, bestie 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int install_timer();

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so install_timer() installs the Allegro timer interrupt handler. That's it, that's the job, and it's lowkey the most important thing you'll do all day 💅

But fr fr, the way that you must call this before certain stuff is not a suggestion, it's a whole vibe check:

  • you gotta do it before installing any user timer routines
  • you gotta do it before displaying a mouse pointer
  • you gotta do it before playing FLI animations or MIDI music
  • and you gotta do it before using any of the GUI routines

Basically if you skip this step, those things are giving nothing and doing less 😭 so call it first, no cap.

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

Returns zero on success, or a negative number on failure 🫶

And ngl, you may decide not to check the return value, because this function is very unlikely to fail. It's giving reliable main character energy ⭐ but the choice is yours, babe.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

And that's the whole page, gorgeous 💖 this one lives in the Allegro manual, install_timer(3alleg4), from Allegro version 4.4.3. Slay, go install that timer, mwah 🎀✨

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