three_finger_flag(3alleg4)

💅 three_finger_flag — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to three_finger_flag(3alleg4) from the Allegro manual — yes, that Allegro, the game programming library. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're talking about the lil flag that controls your program's ✨emergency exit✨. it's giving "don't touch that button" energy and honestly? iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

extern int three_finger_flag;

that's it. one extern int. no cap. 🫶

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea, bestie. the DJGPP keyboard handler ships with an 'emergency exit' sequence that you can use to kill off your program — like, full on yank the plug. 💀

if you're running under DOS, that sequence is the classic three finger salute: ctrl+alt+del. periodt.

but here's the plot twist: most multitasking OS's will trap that combination before it ever reaches the Allegro handler, so in that case you can use the alternative ctrl+alt+end instead. sneaky, but it works. 🌈

and now the important part — if you wanna disable this behaviour in release versions of your program, just set this flag to FALSE. that's the whole vibe check. no extra steps. 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• install_keyboard(3alleg4) — go read it, it's the sibling page, they're a package deal 🧚

Allegro, version 4.4.3 — mwah, that's the whole page bestie, go forth and set your flags responsibly 💖🦋✨