exdata(3)

💖 exdata — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is exdata(3) from the Allegro manual, and it's literally just a lil demo page about poking around inside datafiles. stay with me, it's short and cute 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

exdata — accessing the contents of datafiles. Allegro game programming library. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

Example exdata

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the vibe: this program is a whole demo of how to get at the contents of an Allegro datafile — and just so we're clear, that's a datafile created by the grabber utility. 👑

The example loads the file example.dat, then it blits a bitmap and shows a font, and both of those things come straight out of this datafile. that's it. that's the whole flex. 💅

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these next, bestie, they're the supporting cast 🫶

• DATAFILE(3)
• END_OF_MAIN(3)
• allegro_error(3)
• allegro_init(3)
• allegro_message(3)
• blit(3)
• font(3)
• install_keyboard(3)
• load_datafile(3)
• makecol(3)
• readkey(3)
• replace_filename(3)
• screen(3)
• set_color_conversion(3)
• set_gfx_mode(3)
• set_palette(3)
• textout_ex(3)
• unload_datafile(3)

and that's the whole page!! 🌸 this was Allegro version 4.4.3, and yeah, the page itself is literally called exdata(3) — no cap, that's the name up top and the name at the bottom, she's consistent like that. 💜✨