AL_SET_NEW_FILE_INTERFACE(3)

💖 al_set_new_file_interface(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro 5 API corner of the manual — this one's a lil function with main character energy and it's about to change how your thread opens files 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

al_set_new_file_interface — Allegro 5 API, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_set_new_file_interface(const ALLEGRO_FILE_INTERFACE *file_interface)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what this does, lowkey: it sets the ALLEGRO_FILE_INTERFACE(3) table for the calling thread. Yep — the calling thread, not everybody, not the whole process, just your thread doing its thing 💅

And because of that, it changes the handler for later calls to al_fopen(3). Like, the file-opening behavior you get from that point on comes from whatever interface you just dropped in there. No cap, that's it, that's the whole function 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_set_standard_file_interface(3)
• al_store_state(3)
• al_restore_state(3)

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and that's the page, bestie!! ✨ this lil icon came to you straight from the Allegro reference manual — go forth and file-interface responsibly 💜🎀🦋