al_registe...ap_saver_f(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this page is for al_register_bitmap_saver_f — Allegro 5 API — and it lives in the Library Functions Manual, with the header looking all abbreviated like al_registe...ap_saver_f(3) 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_register_bitmap_saver_f(const char *extension,
   bool (*fs_saver)(ALLEGRO_FILE *fp, ALLEGRO_BITMAP *bmp))

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Bestie, this is how you register a handler for al_save_bitmap_f(3). The function you pass in gets used to handle saving bitmap files with the extension you give it. It’s giving “custom save behavior, but make it official” ✨

The extension should include the leading dot (.) character. It will be matched case-insensitively — no cap.

The saver_f argument may be NULL to unregister an entry. Very “we can unplug it whenever” energy 💅

It returns true on success and false on error. Also, it returns false if you’re unregistering an entry that doesn’t exist.

bestie heads up: unregistering a thing that isn’t there is a false, not a dramatic success 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_register_bitmap_saver(3)

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🫶 source/version: Allegro reference manual. Date: the footer on this copy doesn’t show one, so I’m not inventing it — periodt 💀💅