al_get_keyboard_event_source(3alleg5)

💖 al_get_keyboard_event_source — Allegro 5 API ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_get_keyboard_event_source — Allegro 5 API 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_EVENT_SOURCE *al_get_keyboard_event_source(void)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. you wanna get your hands on the keyboard event source? that's literally what this does, no cap ✨

Every single keyboard event — like, ALLEGRO_EVENT_KEY_DOWN (ALLEGRO_EVENT_KEY_DOWN(3alleg5)) and all its keyboard-event friends — is generated by this exact event source. it's giving main character energy, fr fr 👑

💀 IMPORTANT THO: it returns NULL if the keyboard subsystem was not installed. so vibe check your init calls before you start pointing fingers at this function, bestie 😭

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and that's the whole thing!! short, sweet, iconic, ate. 🌈⭐

signing off from the Allegro reference manual — this page is al_get_keyboard_event_source(3alleg5) and it loves you 💜🎀