al_register_font_loader(3)

💅 al_register_font_loader(3) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual — this is the Allegro 5 API page for al_register_font_loader, and honestly? it's giving "let me teach the library a new trick" energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_register_font_loader — the Allegro 5 API function that lets you teach Allegro a whole new font file type 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h>

bool al_register_font_loader(char const *extension,
   ALLEGRO_FONT *(*load_font)(char const *filename, int size, int flags))

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically — this function informs Allegro of a new font file type, and it tells Allegro exactly how to load files of this format. like introducing your new friend to the group chat and saying "yeah they're cool, here's how to talk to them" 🫶

the extension should include the leading dot (.) character. and the way it gets matched? case-insensitively — so it does not care about your capital letters, it's unbothered, it's thriving 💅

the load_font argument may be NULL to unregister an entry. yep — passing NULL is the "actually never mind, remove this" move 🙈

it returns true on success, false on error. and lowkey important: it returns false if you try to unregister an entry that doesn't exist 💀 so don't come for entries that aren't there, bestie.

ngl, that return value is your vibe check — true means slay, false means something went sideways. always check it ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_init_font_addon(3) — the related page, go read it, iykyk 👑

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🧚💜 this adorable little writeup lives in the Allegro reference manual, and yes the page itself is al_register_font_loader(3) — mwah, see you in the next one 🍓⭐