al_release_haptic(3)

💖 al_release_haptic 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API manual — this one is short, sweet, and lowkey important if you're messing with haptic devices. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_release_haptic — Allegro 5 API

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

bool al_release_haptic(ALLEGRO_HAPTIC *haptic)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you're done with the haptic device, you don't need it anymore, and you want to release the device and all its resources. That is literally what this does. 💅

You should also use it if the joystick configuration changed — like when a joystick is hot plugged, iykyk. This function also automatically releases all haptic effects that are still uploaded to the device and that have not been released manually using al_release_haptic_effect(3). Obsessed with the cleanup. 🧚

It returns true on success, or false if the haptic device couldn't be released for any reason — for example, NULL being passed, the device not being active, or a failure in the driver. No cap. 😭

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⏳ SINCE ⏳

5.1.8 — slay. ✨

[Unstable API]: perhaps this could be simplified due to limited support for all the exposed features across all of the platforms. Awaiting feedback from users. 👀

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mwah 💋 — that's the whole page, bestie. It's from the Allegro reference manual, page al_release_haptic(3), and the footer has no extra date to spill, just vibes. 🫶