FREE_AUDIO_STREAM_BUFFER(3alleg4)

💖 NAME 💖

free_audio_stream_buffer — the lil function that tells the audio stream player "bestie, the new data is READY, go play it" ✨

It lives in the Allegro game programming library, and this page is from the 3alleg4 manual section 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <allegro.h>

void free_audio_stream_buffer(AUDIOSTREAM *stream);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea ☕ — you call this function after get_audio_stream_buffer() hands you back a non-NULL address. What you're saying to Allegro is: "hey, I filled that spot with a fresh block of samples, the data is ready to go, play it bestie" 💅

That's literally it. It's the "done, go ahead" signal, no cap.

Example, because seeing it is believing:

mem_chunk = get_audio_stream_buffer(buffer);
if (mem_chunk != NULL) {
   /* Refill the stream buffer. */
   ...
   free_audio_stream_buffer(buffer);
}

See the flow? Grab the chunk, and if it's not NULL you refill that stream buffer, then hand it back with free_audio_stream_buffer() so it can actually be played 🦋 It's giving responsible-buffer-citizen energy 👑

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• get_audio_stream_buffer(3alleg4) — the one you call first, the getter to this freer 🎀
• exstream(3alleg4) — an example, go peep it 🔥

Reminder bestie: only call this after get_audio_stream_buffer() gives you a non-NULL address. That's the whole vibe check 💀

That's the page!! 🌸 This was Allegro, version 4.4.3, from the 3alleg4 manual — mwah, slay, periodt 💅✨🎀