load_lbm(3alleg4)

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💖 load_lbm — the Allegro manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual, section 3, page load_lbm. yes this is a real Unix manpage and yes it's about loading pictures. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

load_lbm — loads an LBM bitmap from a file. it's giving Allegro game programming library energy, fr fr.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

BITMAP *load_lbm(const char *filename, RGB *pal);

that's it. that's the whole vibe. two lines of C and a dream. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea: load_lbm loads a 256-color IFF ILBM/PBM file.

that's literally it. no cap. if you've got an old-school IFF ILBM or PBM file sitting on your disk and you need it as an Allegro bitmap, this is the function, and it's not picky, it just wants that 256-color goodness. 🦋

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

it hands you back a pointer to the bitmap, or NULL if something went sideways (error, bestie, we've all been there 😭).

🚨 REAL TALK ALERT 🚨 remember that you are responsible for destroying the bitmap when you are finished with it. like, you, personally. don't just leave it there vibing in memory forever — that's how you get memory leaks and memory leaks are not the look. free your bitmaps. periodt. 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • load_bitmap(3alleg4) — the sibling, the companion, the other one. go read it too, iykyk. 🫶

🌈 a lil sign-off 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this gorgeous lil number comes to you from Allegro, version 4.4.3 — yeah, 4.4.3, iconic, no notes — and it's filed under load_lbm(3alleg4) in the manual. mwah. 💋✨🎀💖

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