DATAFILE(3alleg4)

💖 DATAFILE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual — this is the DATAFILE page and it's literally the little struct that holds a whole datafile in memory. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

DATAFILE — stores an Allegro datafile in memory. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct DATAFILE

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this struct has four members and they are all doing their own little thing:

• void *dat; — pointer to the actual data ✨
• int type; — type of the data 💅
• long size; — size of the data in bytes 📏
• void *prop; — list of object properties 🏷️

and if you wanna know how to actually obtain this structure or use it, go read the chapter "Datafile routines", section "Using datafiles" — it's all explained there, iykyk 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• load_datafile(3alleg4)
• excustom(3alleg4)
• exdata(3alleg4)
• exexedat(3alleg4)
• exgui(3alleg4)
• exsprite(3alleg4)
• exunicod(3alleg4)

ok that's the whole page, no cap. go forth and load those datafiles 💖

Allegro, version 4.4.3 — DATAFILE(3alleg4), signing off 🦋✨ ily, drink some water 🍓