al_init_font_addon(3)

✨ al_init_font_addon(3) ✨ — Allegro 5 API, Library Functions Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the font addon page 🎀 this is from the Allegro 5 API section of the Library Functions Manual, and honestly it's giving "tiny function, big feelings". let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_init_font_addon — Allegro 5 API. that's it, that's the name, she's iconic and she knows it ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h>

bool al_init_font_addon(void)

like, look at her. one include, one call, zero arguments. no notes 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the whole vibe here is: Initialise the font addon. That's the main character job. You call it, fonts work. periodt 💅

But bestie, listen, there are side quests depending on what kind of fonts you're loading:

• if you intend to load bitmap fonts, you will need to initialise allegro_image separately — unless you're using another library to load images, in which case you're fine, live your truth 🧚
• similarly, if you wish to load truetype-fonts, do not forget to also call al_init_ttf_addon(3). do not forget. i'm serious. i will know 🙈

⭐ Return value ⭐

• it returns true on success, false on failure 🫶
• BUT — on the 5.0 branch, this function has no return value at all 😭 so if your code needs to be compatible with Allegro 5.0, you may wish to avoid checking the return value. like, just don't look at it, it's not there, nothing to see 💀
• and currently, the function will never return false. so like... the false path is lowkey just a rumour. but it's still in the signature, so we respect her 🌈

✨ vibe check: this is literally just the init call. the real drama is in the addons you have to remember to init too. don't be the person who forgets al_init_ttf_addon(3) and then cries in the group chat 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, they're all part of the same friend group:

• al_init_image_addon(3)
• al_init_ttf_addon(3)
• al_shutdown_font_addon(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 this one lived in the Allegro reference manual, no cap — shoutout to whoever wrote it, you ate 💖 and yeah, that's al_init_font_addon(3), see you at the next function 🦋✨