allegro_id(3alleg4)

💖 allegro_id — bestie edition 💖

3alleg4 manual, Allegro era, and yes we're reading the allegro_id page together, hold my hand 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

allegro_id — a string that's holding the date and the version number of Allegro. it's giving library birth certificate fr fr 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

extern char allegro_id[];

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so allegro_id is a text string, and inside it lives a date plus a version number for the library 🌸. That's literally it. That's the whole vibe.

Why would you care? Because sometimes you wanna display that info somewhere 👑 — like in an about box, a splash screen, a title bar, wherever. The library already wrote down its own birthday and its version, and this string is where it keeps it. No cap.

lowkey the most honest variable in the whole header 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! you read it, you understood it, you ate 🍓✨ this was allegro_id from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3 — mwah, go display that string somewhere cute 💜🦋