al_create_file_handle(3alleg5)

✨ al_create_file_handle ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro reference manual — yes that's the manual name, we're fancy here 💅 — and today's main character is al_create_file_handle from the Allegro 5 API. it's giving low-level, it's giving build-your-own-file-interface, and honestly? obsessed. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_create_file_handle — the Allegro 5 API function that hands you a blank-but-open file handle so you can do your own custom thing with it 🦋

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🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_FILE *al_create_file_handle(const ALLEGRO_FILE_INTERFACE *drv,
   void *userdata)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: you get an empty, opened file handle, right, and it comes with some abstract user data attached to it. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

the point of this whole situation is that it lets custom interfaces extend the ALLEGRO_FILE(3alleg5) struct with their own data. so like, you bring the extra fields, Allegro brings the handle. collab of the century fr fr 🤝

no cap, when you're done with it you should close the handle with the standard al_fclose(3alleg5) function. don't just ghost it, bestie. close your handles. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• al_fopen(3alleg5)
• al_fclose(3alleg5)
• al_set_new_file_interface(3alleg5)

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aaaand that's the page!! 🫶 this was the Allegro reference manual doing its al_create_file_handle(3alleg5) moment, so go forth and make custom file interfaces, you icon. slay, stay hydrated, and remember: close your handles 💜🎀⭐