update_dialog(3)

🎀 update_dialog(3) 🎀

okay bestie, so this is update_dialog, a low-level function that updates a dialog player, and it lives in the Allegro game programming library. it's giving very much "behind the scenes" energy, iykyk 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int update_dialog(DIALOG_PLAYER *player);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what this does is it updates the status of a dialog object — the kind you got back from init_dialog(). that's the whole job. she's a low-level girlie and she's fine with that 🫶

it returns TRUE if the dialog is still active, or FALSE if it has terminated. no cap.

💀 heads up: when it hands you back FALSE, that's when you have to decide what happens next — it is literally up to you whether to call shutdown_dialog() or to just keep going with execution. the function is not gonna hold your hand on that one, bestie.

and if you're sitting there like "wait, who ended this?? 😭" — the object that requested the exit can be determined from the player->obj field. iconic. she told you exactly where to look. periodt.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• init_dialog(3)

that's the whole vibe ✨ this page was brought to you by Allegro, version 4.4.3 — and yeah, the manual page itself is literally named update_dialog(3), we love a self-titled moment 👑💖