minput_create_ic(3m17n)

✨ minput_create_ic ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the m17n Library manual, page minput_create_ic(3m17n) — and yes it's giving ✨ input context creation ✨, let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

minput_create_ic -

fr fr the original page leaves it blank after the dash 🙈 no little one-line summary, no nothing, just the name and a lonely hyphen. iconic behaviour honestly. moving on 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

MInputContext* minput_create_ic (MInputMethod * im, void * arg)

two args, one pointer back out. it's giving minimal. we love a short signature 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, plot twist: this function creates an input context. that's the whole vibe ✨

The minput_create_ic() function creates an input context object associated with input method im, and then — and this is the part you need to remember for the quiz — it calls callback functions corresponding to Minput_preedit_start, Minput_status_start, and Minput_status_draw, in this order 👑

like. order matters. preedit start, then status start, then status draw. no shuffling, no vibes-based reordering, bestie. the library said what it said 🌸

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• If an input context is successfully created, minput_create_ic() returns a pointer to it 🎀
• Otherwise it returns NULL. which is the sad path, the "we didn't make it" path, the 💀 path

heads up: NULL is a real possible answer here, so check it before you go dereferencing like a menace, bestie 😭

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)

Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

that's the legal bit, please don't skip it, the lawyers are watching 🙈

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aaaaand that's the whole page, bestie 💅 no SEE ALSO, no OPTIONS, no ENVIRONMENT — just a very focused little function doing exactly one thing and doing it slayfully 🦋

sending you off with: Version 1.8.4, dated Mon Sep 25 2023, from the m17n Library crew — mwah, take care of yourself, hydrate, and check your return values 💖✨🎀