install_sound(3alleg4)

💖 install_sound 💖

okay bestie, so you're in the Allegro manual (that's the manual name, we're keeping it, periodt) and this lil function is literally the moment your game goes from silent movie to full-on concert vibes. it's install_sound(3alleg4) and she's the queen of getting audio set up. let's gooo 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int install_sound(int digi, int midi, const char *cfg_path);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

She initialises the sound module. That's the whole job. And listen — you should normally be passing DIGI_AUTODETECT and MIDI_AUTODETECT as the driver parameters when you call her. do that and Allegro will read the hardware settings straight from the current configuration file 🦋

why does that matter? because it lets the user pick different values themselves using the setup utility — go look at the config section for the tea on that one, iykyk 💅

alternatively (if you're feeling spicy and specific), check out the platform specific documentation for a list of the available drivers, because the roster differs depending on where you're at 🌈

now, about that cfg_path parameter… bestie. she's giving legacy energy. she's only present for compatibility with previous versions of Allegro, and she has no effect on anything. literally. nothing. she's just here for the vibes 🙈 don't stress about her.

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• returns zero if the sound got successfully installed, slay 💖
• returns -1 on failure, and if it does fail it will store a description of the problem in allegro_error so you can actually find out what went wrong 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• remove_sound(3alleg4)
• reserve_voices(3alleg4)
• detect_digi_driver(3alleg4)
• detect_midi_driver(3alleg4)
• set_volume(3alleg4)
• play_sample(3alleg4)
• play_midi(3alleg4)
• play_audio_stream(3alleg4)
• install_sound_input(3alleg4)
• allegro_error(3alleg4)
• set_mixer_quality(3alleg4)
• exmidi(3alleg4)
• exsample(3alleg4)
• exsprite(3alleg4)
• exstream(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this lil slice of wisdom comes courtesy of Allegro, version 4.4.3 — go make some noise, you absolute icon 🫶🎀✨