is_linear_bitmap(3)

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💖 is_linear_bitmap — Allegro manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this one lives in the Allegro game programming library, and its whole job is telling you if a bitmap is linear. that's it. that's the gig. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

is_linear_bitmap — tells you if a bitmap is linear, in the Allegro game programming library 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int is_linear_bitmap(BITMAP *bmp);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so you hand it a bmp, and it hands you back TRUE if that bitmap is a linear bitmap — meaning a bitmap you can access linearly within each scanline. like, lowkey the classic examples: a memory bitmap, the DOS VGA or SVGA screen, Windows bitmaps, etc. you know the vibe 😌

and the way that linear bitmaps are the ones you can use with _putpixel(), _getpixel(), bmp_write_line(), and bmp_read_line()?? iconic. those functions are literally built for them 🫶

now for the lore 🎀 historically there were only two bitmap flavors in Allegro: linear and planar. so is_linear_bitmap() is actually just an alias for !is_planar_bitmap(). no cap. it's giving "same function, different font" 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and vibe check your bitmaps 👑

Allegro, version 4.4.3 🌸 — mwah, tysm for reading, ilysm, see u in the next manpage 💜💖✨

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