dialog_message(3alleg4)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💌 dialog_message — from the Allegro manual 🎀

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Allegro game programming library and it's genuinely one of those lil functions that does so much with so few words. iykyk 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dialog_message — sends a message to all the objects in an array. (also: it's part of the Allegro game programming library, hi hello 🦋)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

int dialog_message(DIALOG *dialog, int msg, int c, int *obj);

like. look at it. three ints and a pointer. iconic behavior fr fr 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: dialog_message sends a message to every single object in an array. not one. not a few. all of them. it's giving group chat energy, honestly — one message, everybody hears it 📣✨

And then the interesting part 👀 — if any of the dialog procedures return values that are anything other than D_O_K, then:

  • it returns that value right back to you, and
  • it sets obj to the index of the object that produced it 🎯

so basically the first object to clap back gets to be the main character, and you get told exactly which one it was. no cap. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too bestie, they're literally right there 🥰

and that's the whole page!! no crumbs left behind 💜 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — mwah, love u, go message some dialogs 💅✨🎀

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