DAT_ID(3alleg4)

💖 DAT_ID 💖

the Allegro manual, but make it a group chat ✨ (this one lives in section 3alleg4, iykyk)

🌸 NAME 🌸

DAT_ID — makes an ID value from four letters 🦋 part of the Allegro game programming library, bestie 💜

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

Macro DAT_ID(a, b, c, d);

okay so that's literally it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So every single object or property inside a datafile gets identified by a 4 letter ID, right? And this macro is the girl who makes that ID for you 💅

Like, say you wanna access the NAME property of a datafile object — you'd be like:

get_datafile_property(datob, DAT_ID('N','A','M','E'));

and boom, you're in ✨ the macro squishes those four lil letters into one ID value and hands it over. no cap, that's the whole job 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• register_datafile_object(3alleg4)
• get_datafile_property(3alleg4)

k byeeee, this was Allegro version 4.4.3, DAT_ID girlie signing off 💜✨ slay, stay iconic, read ur man pages 🎀🦋