exdata(3alleg4)

💖 exdata — accessing the contents of datafiles 💖

okay bestie, so this is exdata, a lil example program from the Allegro game programming library (manual section 3alleg4, iykyk). it's giving "hello world" but for datafiles, and honestly? iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

Example exdata

like yes, that's the whole thing. it's an example, not a function you call. no cap. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: this program is a live demonstration of how to access the contents of an Allegro datafile — and a datafile is the thing that gets created by the grabber utility, fr fr. 🦋

the example loads the file example.dat, and then it does two whole things:

• it blits a bitmap — that bitmap is straight up coming from the datafile 👑
• it shows a font — and that font is ALSO coming from the datafile 💅

both of them, out of the same datafile. the way that a single .dat file can hold your whole life's assets... obsessed. ✨

ngl the whole point is: one file, many resources, zero chaos. main character energy.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the group chat, aka every related page you might wanna peek at:

• DATAFILE(3alleg4)
• END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)
• allegro_error(3alleg4)
• allegro_init(3alleg4)
• allegro_message(3alleg4)
• blit(3alleg4)
• font(3alleg4)
• install_keyboard(3alleg4)
• load_datafile(3alleg4)
• makecol(3alleg4)
• readkey(3alleg4)
• replace_filename(3alleg4)
• screen(3alleg4)
• set_color_conversion(3alleg4)
• set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)
• set_palette(3alleg4)
• textout_ex(3alleg4)
• unload_datafile(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, bestie. this one shipped with Allegro version 4.4.3 🌈 so go forth, load your example.dat, and slay. 🫶💖