VistaIOWriteImages(3)

💖 VistaIOWriteImages — write a series of images to a stream 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the VistaIOWriteImages(3) page, straight out of the Library Functions Manual. this one's short and sweet and it's literally just "dump a bunch of images into a stream," so let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

VistaIOWriteImages — write a series of images to a stream 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stdio>
#include <vistaio.h>
#include <vistaio.h>

VistaIOBoolean VistaIOWriteImages (file, attributes, nimages, images)
       FILE *file;
       VistaIOAttrList attributes;
       int nimages;
       VistaIOImage images[nimages];

no babe I didn't typo that, the <vistaio.h> include is literally in there twice in the original. we keep it exactly as it is. periodt. 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• file — the open stream you're writing those images into. it's already open, bestie, that's on you 🌈
• attributes — a list of attributes that get written to the stream too ✨
• nimages — how many images you're writing. the count. the vibe check number 🔢
• images — the actual images being written 💖

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

VistaIOWriteImages writes a whole series of images to an open stream as a Vista data file. it's giving "batch export energy" fr fr.

here's the order, and the order matters:

1. it writes images[0] all the way through images[nimages - 1] 🌸
2. then it writes any attributes in the list attributes ✨

and lowkey the best part: the attributes argument can be NULL if you literally only want images written. no attrs, no problem 💅

🔥 RETURN VALUES 🔥

• returns TRUE if everything went great, slay 🎉
• returns FALSE otherwise 😭

⚠️ heads up bestie: if there's an error, the data written to the stream may be incomplete. so like, don't trust a half-written stream, okay? 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• VistaIOWriteFile(3)
• VistaIOWriteObjects(3)
• VistaIOWriteUbcIff(3)
• stdio(3)
• VistaIOImage(3)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Art Pope <pope@cs.ubc.ca>

Adaption to vistaio: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com>

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this was VistaIO Version 1.2.14, dated 24 April 1993, and yes the date is older than everyone in the group chat — iconic behavior honestly 👑🎀💖