scare_mouse_area(3alleg4)

💖 scare_mouse_area — Allegro manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual — yes THE Allegro, the game programming library, and yes we're about to talk about a tiny little function that saves your whole entire drawing session. it's giving underrated icon energy fr fr.

✨ NAME ✨

scare_mouse_area — she's a helper for hiding the mouse cursor before you draw in an area. part of the Allegro game programming library, no cap 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

void scare_mouse_area(int x, int y, int w, int h);

like, that's it. four little ints. four. and she eats. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically she's scare_mouse()'s more considerate sister. same vibe, but with boundaries (we love a queen who knows her limits ✨).

here's the tea: she will only hide the cursor if it is inside the specified rectangle. that's the whole point. if the cursor is inside that rectangle → bye bye cursor, gone, hidden, not bothering your art. 🫶

but if the cursor is not inside the rectangle? then she doesn't hide it at all — she just freezes it in place until you call unscare_mouse(). so either way, the cursor literally cannot interfere with your drawing. she's got you covered either way, bestie. periodt. 😭💖

ngl this is the polite version of scare_mouse(). use it when you're only redrawing one little region and you don't wanna be dramatic about the whole screen. main character energy but respectful.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• unscare_mouse(3alleg4) — the one who un-freezes everything and lets the cursor live again 🌈
• scare_mouse(3alleg4) — the original, the drama, hides the cursor no matter what ⭐
• show_mouse(3alleg4) — brings the cursor back for the world to see 💜

okay that's the whole page, you're welcome, go draw something gorgeous 🎀✨

and for the record, this was Allegro version 4.4.3 — scare_mouse_area(3alleg4), out here serving documentation since forever. mwah. 💋🍓