save_joystick_data(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💾 save_joystick_data — the "please don't make them calibrate again" function 💾

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual (yes, the Allegro game programming library, she's iconic) 💖

✨ NAME ✨

save_joystick_data — saves joystick calibration data. Allegro game programming library. that's it, that's the vibe 🎮

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int save_joystick_data(const char *filename);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so picture this: you just survived the whole calibration saga. the twirling, the button-pressing, the "please move the stick to the top-left corner" of it all. and now you're supposed to make your poor users do that ENTIRE thing again every single time they run your program?? absolutely not, not on my watch, no cap 😭

call this function and it saves all that joystick calibration data into the configuration file you point it at, and later on load_joystick_data() can read it right back out. so the calibration is preserved, the users are blessed, the vibes are immaculate ✨

and here's the cute little bonus: if you pass a NULL filename, it writes the data to the currently selected configuration file instead. lowkey convenient, highkey a lifesaver 🫶

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

  • returns zero on success — slay 💖
  • returns non-zero if the data could not be saved — 💀 moment, the save did not eat

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

fr fr, save that calibration. your users will literally never know how good they have it. main character energy on your part tbh 👑

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