SDL_OpenTitleStorage(3)

✨ SDL_OpenTitleStorage ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, this one's called SDL_OpenTitleStorage(3) and it's literally the key to your app's own little file kingdom 🏰💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_OpenTitleStorage — opens up a read-only container for the application's filesystem. it's giving "look but don't touch" energy and honestly? iconic 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <SDL3/SDL_storage.h>

SDL_Storage * SDL_OpenTitleStorage(const char *override, SDL_PropertiesID props);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: by default, SDL_OpenTitleStorage uses the generic storage implementation. no cap.

and when the path override is not provided? the generic implementation will use the output of SDL_GetBasePath as the base path. periodt 💫 that's just how it works, she said what she said.

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🫶 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🫶

• override — a path to override the backend's default title root. like, "no thanks bestie, we're using this folder instead" 💁‍♀️
• props — a property list that may contain backend-specific information. extra info, backend-flavoured, iykyk ✨

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

returns a title storage container on success 🌈 or NULL on failure 😭 — and if it fails, call SDL_GetError() for more information, she'll tell you what went wrong fr fr.

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0. so if you're on something older... yeah no 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• SDL_CloseStorage(3)
• SDL_GetStorageFileSize(3)
• SDL_OpenUserStorage(3)
• SDL_ReadStorageFile(3)

go read those too, they're all connected, it's a whole cinematic universe 🌈🦋

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and that's a wrap, babe 💜 this page came to you courtesy of Simple Directmedia Layer, rockin' SDL 3.4.18 — stay slay, keep your storage read-only, and go open some files 🎀✨