ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO(3alleg5)

✨ ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO ✨

okay bestie so you're in the Allegro 5 API docs, section 3alleg5, and today's main character is ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO 💖 she's a typedef, she's mysterious, she holds secrets (well, info) 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

typedef struct _al_tagbstring ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO;

like. look at her. a whole alias for struct _al_tagbstring 💅 no cap.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO is a type that holds extra info for an ALLEGRO_USTR (that's ALLEGRO_USTR(3alleg5) bestie, go read her page) when that USTR is referencing an external memory buffer 👀 like she's not carrying her own string data, she's pointing at somebody else's.

and the way that you can convert it right back into an ALLEGRO_USTR (ALLEGRO_USTR(3alleg5), yes, her again 💜) is via al_ref_info(3alleg5). iconic. reversible. we love a round trip 🎀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_ref_cstr(3alleg5)
• al_ref_buffer(3alleg5)
• al_ref_info(3alleg5)
• al_ref_ustr(3alleg5)

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go read those, fr fr. they're the whole reference squad 🌈

Allegro reference manual 📖 — that's where this lil page lives, and it's filed under ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO(3alleg5), so if you ever need to find her again you know exactly where to look 💅✨ mwah, bye bestie 🦋