al_start_timer(3alleg5)

✨ al_start_timer — Allegro 5 API ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API reference manual, and today's main character is al_start_timer 💖 she's a 3alleg5 girlie, obviously.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_start_timer(ALLEGRO_TIMER *timer)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. you hand her a timer — that's your ALLEGRO_TIMER *timer — and she starts it. that's it. that's the job. 💅

from that moment on, the timer's counter starts incrementing at a constant rate, and it begins generating events. no cap. it's giving clock energy 🕰️✨

now the little edge cases, because details are everything:

• starting a timer that is already started does nothing. like, she's already doing it, she's not gonna do it twice. 🙈
• starting a timer that was stopped will reset the timer's counter, which effectively restarts the timer from the beginning. fresh start, clean slate, new era 🦋

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• al_stop_timer(3alleg5)
• al_get_timer_started(3alleg5)
• al_resume_timer(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 this little love letter comes to you straight from the Allegro reference manual, page al_start_timer(3alleg5) — periodt. 💜