DATAFILE(3)

okay bestie, you opened the Allegro manual and landed on the DATAFILE(3) page — this one's short but it's literally the blueprint of every datafile you'll ever touch, so let's go 💖

✨ NAME ✨

DATAFILE — stores an Allegro datafile in memory. that's the whole assignment, and it ate 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct DATAFILE

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ok so the struct itself? here's every single member, no gatekeeping, no skipping:

• void *dat; — pointer to the actual data
• int type; — type of the data
• long size; — size of the data in bytes
• void *prop; — list of object properties

and if you're sitting there like "bestie how do I even get one of these things" — go read the chapter "Datafile routines", section "Using datafiles", it explains how to obtain and use this structure 🫶 iykyk

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, go say hi:

• load_datafile(3)
• excustom(3)
• exdata(3)
• exexedat(3)
• exgui(3)
• exsprite(3)
• exunicod(3)

and that's the page, bestie 💜 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — main character energy, no cap, periodt ✨🎀