AL_REGISTER_AUDIO_STREAM_LOADER(3)

okay so this is the al_register_audio_stream_loader(3) page from the Library Functions Manual, and it’s serving Allegro 5 API realness — no cap, it’s a little registration baddie for audio stream loaders 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

al_register_audio_stream_loader — Allegro 5 API. That’s the name, bestie. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

              #include <allegro5/allegro_audio.h>

              bool al_register_audio_stream_loader(const char *ext,
                 ALLEGRO_AUDIO_STREAM *(*stream_loader)(const char *filename,
                    size_t buffer_count, unsigned int samples))

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: you’re registering a handler for al_load_audio_stream(3) and al_play_audio_stream(3). The given function is the one that gets used to open streams from files with the given extension. It’s giving custom extension, custom loader energy 🦋

• ext — the extension. It should include the leading dot (.) character. Yep, the literal . is part of it, bestie. It will be matched case-insensitively, so don’t stress about case. 🫶
• stream_loader — the function pointer. It may be NULL to unregister an entry. That’s the unregister slay 💅
• return value — returns true on success, false on error. Also returns false if you’re unregistering an entry that doesn’t exist. Rude? Maybe. Factual? Absolutely. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• al_register_audio_stream_loader_f(3)

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that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 — source/version: Allegro reference manual; date: not listed in the footer, so I’m not inventing one 💜. Signed off with al_registe...ream_loader(3) energy. 🎀