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view_get_preferred_x

January 19th 2020
Get the x coordinate of the core tracked preferred x on a view

Signature

C++
f32
view_get_preferred_x(Application_Links* app,
                     View_ID view_id);

Parameters

app

the standard custom layer context pointer

view_id

the id of the view to query

Return

the preferred x of the view in pixels from the left edge of buffer layout space, if the view exists, otherwise zero