al_get_sample(3)

bestieeee, welcome to al_get_sample(3) from the Allegro 5 API — yes, the manual page, but make it group-chat friendly. ✨ Nothing is getting skipped, okay? Every pointer, note, and SEE ALSO link is staying. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

al_get_sample — Allegro 5 API. The function that hands you the sample data your sample instance is playing. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so first include the audio header, then call it like this — copy/paste exact, bestie:

#include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>

ALLEGRO_SAMPLE *al_get_sample(ALLEGRO_SAMPLE_INSTANCE *spl)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so you hand al_get_sample a sample instance pointer, spl — type ALLEGRO_SAMPLE_INSTANCE * — and it returns the sample data that the sample instance plays. That's the main-character job. 🫶

⚠️ important vibe check: this returns a pointer to an internal structure, not the ALLEGRO_SAMPLE(3) that you may have passed to al_set_sample(3). Not the same pointer, bestie. 😭

BUT — and this is the cute part — the sample buffer of the returned ALLEGRO_SAMPLE will be the same as the one that was used to create the sample (passed to al_create_sample(3)). So the buffer matches, even if the struct pointer isn't the one you handed in. 🌈

You can use al_get_sample_data(3) on the return value to retrieve and compare it. Literally that's the move. 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_set_sample(3) — the related call, go click it. 💜

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kisses bestie! 💋 that's the whole page — source/footer vibe: Allegro reference manual, al_get_sample(3), and no date line was on this cut so I'm not inventing one. periodt. 🎀✨