al_load_bitmap_f(3alleg5)

💖 al_load_bitmap_f — Allegro 5 API 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the al_load_bitmap_f(3alleg5) page, from the Allegro reference manual, no less. this is your girl explaining how to yeet an image out of a file stream and into a shiny new bitmap. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

al_load_bitmap_f — literally the Allegro 5 API, that's the whole name, slay 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

ALLEGRO_BITMAP *al_load_bitmap_f(ALLEGRO_FILE *fp, const char *ident)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what this does is: it loads an image from an ALLEGRO_FILE(3alleg5) stream and drops it into a brand new ALLEGRO_BITMAP(3alleg5). new bitmap, who dis 🎀

the file type gets figured out by al_identify_bitmap_f(3alleg5). and if the identification just... isn't giving 😭 (not possible, bestie), then the ident parameter you passed in is used as a fallback — that's a file name extension including the leading dot, btw, so like .png energy — but only if it's not NULL. no NULL fallback, no backup plan. periodt.

this is the same as calling al_load_bitmap_flags_f(3alleg5) with 0 for the flags parameter. same vibes, fewer args.

it returns NULL on error. and the file stays open afterwards — so don't be out here closing it and then acting surprised, okay? 🙈

Note: the core Allegro library does not support any image file formats by default. you must use the allegro_image addon, or register your own format handler. no addon, no images, no exceptions. it's giving empty plate at a potluck 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• al_load_bitmap_flags_f(3alleg5)
• al_load_bitmap(3alleg5)
• al_register_bitmap_loader_f(3alleg5)
• al_init_image_addon(3alleg5)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it up fr fr 💜 this was the al_load_bitmap_f(3alleg5) page straight out of the Allegro reference manual — go forth and load those bitmaps, bestie, you got this 👑✨