al_get_native_file_dialog_path(3alleg5)

✨ NAME ✨

al_get_native_file_dialog_path — Allegro 5 API, bestie 💖

It's giving "gimme the path of the file my user just picked" and honestly? Iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h>

const char *al_get_native_file_dialog_path(
   const ALLEGRO_FILECHOOSER *dialog, size_t i)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: your file chooser dialog popped off, the user picked some stuff, and now you're sitting there like "…and which files were those exactly?" 🫶 That's literally what this function is for. You hand it an index i, and it returns one of the selected paths. Simple. Elegant. Ate.

Now the one thing you cannot skip: that index i has to range from 0 all the way up to the return value of al_get_native_file_dialog_count(3alleg5) minus 1. That's the range, no cap. Go past it and you're in trouble territory, so check your count first, bestie. 💅

⚠️ Android girlies, this one's for you: on Android, this function does not hand you a file path. It returns a content:// Universal Resource Identifier instead — because Scoped Storage said "no ❌" to the old ways. So if you're on Android and you actually want to read those selected files, you access them using al_android_open_fd(3alleg5). Noted, remembered, never forgotten. 💀✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_get_native_file_dialog_count(3alleg5)
• al_android_open_fd(3alleg5)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💜 this lil page lives in the Allegro reference manual, section 3alleg5, filed under al_get_native_file_dialog_path(3alleg5) — go slay your file dialogs, mwah 🎀✨