al_open_fs_entry(3)

💅 al_open_fs_entry(3) 💅

okay so bestie, we're in the Allegro reference manual today (that's the Library Functions Manual corner of the universe, iykyk) and we're talking about al_open_fs_entry — the Allegro 5 API glow-up you didn't know you needed. let's go ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

al_open_fs_entry — literally the Allegro 5 API, that's the whole name section, no notes 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_FILE *al_open_fs_entry(ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRY *e, const char *mode)

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. copy it exactly, bestie, don't get creative with it 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what this icon actually does: it opens an ALLEGRO_FILE(3) handle to a filesystem entry, using whatever access mode you hand it. ✨

and here's the tea 🔥 — it's basically like calling al_fopen(3) with the name of the filesystem entry, except it uses the appropriate file interface instead of whatever random interface got set by the latest call to al_set_new_file_interface(3). so no cap, it does its own thing and it does not care about your last al_set_new_file_interface(3) call. main character energy fr fr 💀

returns the handle on success, NULL on error. that's the whole deal. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_fopen(3) — the cousin it's related to, go look 🧚

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and that's the page! 🍓 this little masterpiece lives in the Allegro reference manual, and if you ever need to cite it, it's page al_open_fs_entry(3) of that very same manual. slay, you're done, go open some files 💜✨