simulate_ukeypress(3alleg4)

💅 simulate_ukeypress — bestie, let's fake a keypress 💅

okay so this is a page from the Allegro manual, section 3alleg4, and it's all about simulate_ukeypress — the Allegro game programming library function that just yeets a unicode key straight into the keyboard buffer. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

simulate_ukeypress — stuffs a unicode key into the keyboard buffer. part of the Allegro game programming library. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void simulate_ukeypress(int key, int scancode);

like, that's the whole vibe. two ints and you're done. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the tea is: this function stuffs a key into the keyboard buffer, literally exactly as if the user had pressed it themselves. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

The parameter is in the same format returned by ureadkey(). iykyk.

Example, because we love a demonstration:

/* We ignore the scancode simulation. */
simulate_ukeypress(0x00DF, 0);
if (ureadkey(&scancode) == 0x00DF)
   allegro_message("You simulated sharp s\n");

notice how we're passing 0 for the scancode and just ignoring the scancode simulation entirely? yeah. the comment says it, so we say it. the key we're simulating here is 0x00DF, which is the sharp s, and then we check with ureadkey(&scancode) whether it came back out as 0x00DF — and if it did, we hit 'em with allegro_message("You simulated sharp s\n"). slay. ✨

fr fr, that \n inside the message is doing real work — it's right there in the string, don't lose it. 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• install_keyboard(3alleg4) — you gotta set the keyboard up first, bestie
• simulate_keypress(3alleg4) — the scancode-flavoured sibling 🌸
• keypressed(3alleg4) — check if anything's waiting in there
• ureadkey(3alleg4) — read the key back out (and the format reference for this whole function)

and that's the whole page, no notes. 💜 this was simulate_ukeypress from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, hanging out in section 3alleg4 — mwah, periodt. 💅🎀🦋